The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-07
OUTHERN. CENTRAL
RECTTNTE1EAr ASSOrI AsrInA


AR, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tlnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early 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,
III all cases, become responsible for the saie-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed IN the hands OF Its
officers and committees, the 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
| Assoc alton.
Sd. MARI A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor eXhi-
ition, sha have first been eneredn the Secretary's
book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
Sname and residence-and price, iflor sale--giyihg
4 TO the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abors 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.
9TH. There will positively be required in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article Gent tor
| eXhibition-the statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, if a Machine, statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time of Invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcutiyation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, Sc If
NeedIe-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 or very old persons
tie value, uses, &c. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,
visitors, patrons and members, all will take notice,
that a premium will not be awarded TO any ari-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied By
illustrative and explanatory statements made out
in legibc hand, and in style fit al once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations Of the several county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out upon
consultations, report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
! proyements in farming, tlage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time oipanting 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 an amount Of valuable
actions of the Society.
| 9th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
| SouthernAgricultural andM snufacturersExch
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, aud not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
! It'll. Premiums is impossible to name in no
tice like this al the various articles to which pre-
| NUNS 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto an exclusion OF all articles unanuounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition are invited to come The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plements and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
| worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
50 SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best : 3 SO on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On mlner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dollars--these how
eyerare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases Of peculiar merit the committees will be
! permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| Sth. A hail will be prepared and assigned parti-
culary to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, fowers paintings, neede-work &c. They
are cordially invited TO attend. Their assistance
| IN many departments Of the fair is absolutely ne
cesaary TO proper management
| 9Th, lUc facilities of getting this central
point induce us'io invite, and to expect the pre-
scnce and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens OF Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
! rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
| this institution indeed what tits in name Souther
! Central Agric ulural Association.
10th The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| pdrtments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles cassec aud arranged in their respective
departments. III order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
| these regulations, will here repeat, and enon
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
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
mtees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles and thereby have ample time to make their
! reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-deiyery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tinulng the whole time
18th. Any alterations Of, or additions to- the
! foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
! Monday morning Of the Fair week
l2th. The annua! Grafton will he made on
| Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col John Blllups, Of Athens, Georgia.
l3tb. The COMMITTEES have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
| Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ dsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the FAIR
18th The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business Of
the fair.
10TH The Secretary is directed TO publish
these regulations in the CULTvAToR, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States.