The southern press., 1852-01-07
UTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TIME Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
/ raj Agricultural Association, will bched
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tf
day OF August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and Con-
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirablc that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
officers and committees, Che owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
| give them opportunity to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association.
3d. Maj, A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, Wm Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed a committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition, sha have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or Iegstry--then labelled tn the owners
name and residence-and price, iffQr sae--givng
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
facilitate the ahors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary for
the protection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
| and labelling Of articles.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
| cases, minute and accurate written statement
| illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion-the statements to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If Machine, a statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time ofinyention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker Ii horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, Sc IL
Needle work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount Of
labor; the age, if by children very old persons
tie value, uses sc. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information may be.
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society
visitors, patrons and members, all will take notice,
that premium " i'll not be awarded to any art-
Gle, whatever its merit unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socic-
ties requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition OF
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provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring which have been OF are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their cc'lntlees
the modes Of preparation. time OF planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures OF preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
societies would make up amount of valuable
information to he sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th 1t is desirable to make The Fair a Central
Southern Agricultural andM snuiacturcrs Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c.---to carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
18th. Premiums. -. II is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles to which pre-
mums will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
still be many articles of merit offered which would
not be embraced IN II, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
somei into an exclusion Of all articles unannOunced
! the Committee requests the people generally to
| observe, hat it is intended TO give the action of
| the Association the very wdest'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
s that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium OF cup
worth i 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cIes cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
So. so; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
| menis cup worth 4 S will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and misceI eIlaneous articles
premiums from one to three do.ars--these how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
| pcrmiticd indeed are requested to vary the rule.
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needIe-work, &c They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management
| 9th. The facilities of getting 10 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
scncc and contributions of many OF fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
Uth. lhe President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles classeC and arranged in their respective
: departments. III order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat and enjon
upon all TO take notice that articles for exhibition
2 may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9th and 10th of August, so that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mttees proceed at once TO the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
I reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Frday to gen
: eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tlnulng the whole time.
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
: 18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John BilIups, OF Athens, Georgia.
: '3th. The Committee have the prospect OF
> making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation oars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tc
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
. to CIV hsitors the opportunity of the accommo
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