The southern press., 1852-01-13
sOUTHERN CENTRAL
0RICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

day Of August next, which IL the day oil the NTH
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi
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 saie-keepng
ol 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
Association.
3D. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhi
iton sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or legistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residenceand price, If for sale---glvng
to the owner corresponding card--and then classi-
fed and arranged by departments and IN such order
as to facilitate the labors 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.
Attn There will positively be required in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent Tor
exhibtion--the statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, a 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 ofcultivatioD II an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode ofraisng, SC. If
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 &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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
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 Socie-
Ties are requested and enloincd to make out upon
consultation, a report Of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several countless of the inn
provements in farming, tilage, 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 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 be sent out III the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
aa Chn &c.- -tO
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium
7th. Premiums. is impossible to name in no.
ticc 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very widest'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they haye for sale
| or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that on all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any of the departments, a premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces a cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
s 2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
mens a cup worth i 5 will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
! I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three doliars--thcse, how
everare general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
8th hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
| fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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 20 this central
| point induce usto invite, and to expect the pre-
sence 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 il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The 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 so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat and enion
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.
mlttees proceed al once to the examination of art
cles, and thereby have ample time to make then
I reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
+ Thursday vii! be devoted to saes--Friday to gen,
: eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, thu
foregoing rules, will be published at Atante earl,
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 Billups, of Athens, Georgia.
!, 18th. The COMMITTEES have the prospect O
!, making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
/ Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
n early every morning and late in the shernoon, /,
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
!. to Civ 'isitors the opportunity of The accommo
|, dationb ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
attendance upon the FAIR.
Il, I4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
l. comfortable quarters for Committees and Olicers
and others engaged in the laborous business 0