The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-07
oOUTHERN CEN TRIAL
aRICFTI.TURAl. AAA(1(t1 4 TION.

Saturday the 9th and 10Th August wheh u Nom-
mittee will be there ready TO receive them.
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and Will,
in all cases become responsible for the safokecping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (tho 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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, arc
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
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
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibiton--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcultivation. II an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising &c. II
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 SIC. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions ofthe Society,
VISITORS patrons and members all will take notice,
that premium will not be awarded to any art-
,hotn &c, lad k,,
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enioined to make out upon
consultation, a report Of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements in farming, tillage draining and manu-
ring, which have been are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes ofpre paratoD. 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 in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM Manufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
| as choice seeds, machines, stock &c--to carry
"a premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL 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 migbtbe construed by
someinto an exclusion all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embI acng
every thing that is ingenious 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 I'm
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-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
80. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth VS. will be given on the second
best 8 2. so on the third an honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three do.ars--these how
cver,arc general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned pari-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
! fruits, flowers paintings, needle-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 usAo invite, and to expect the pro-
scnce and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
| rida VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whatitis in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10TH The President upon a consultation with
such members 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 classeG and arranged in their respective
departments. in order to the perfection of this
| arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
| these regulations, will here repeat and enjoin
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
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday,
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
| tinuing the whole time.
| 1lth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l~h. Inc annual oratiOh VIII De made on
Wednesday. the day of the Anniversary mee,ing
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
| by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
| 18th. 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 sisitors the opportunity of the accommo-
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
| 14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business Of
| the fair.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuLrlvAroR, and to pro-
cure far practicable their publication in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States.
BY order of the Committee of Arrangements
| DAVID w. LEWIS,
Sec'y Southern Central Agricultural Association.