The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-29
sOUTHEkN CENT RAJ
4 u urrIff/prJRAL ARTICULATION,

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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
lrT,HE Fifih Annual Fair VI the Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will bcheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tt
day Of August next, which is the day Of the filth
annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening II is thereiore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhib-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, tho 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
| Cd The Association has an ample fund, and will.
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-kceping
Of articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees, the owner taking check
for the same,O 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 ad journmcnt OF the
Association.
3d. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ion, sha have first been entercdin the Secretarys
book or Iegistry-then labelled with the owners
name and resideIce--and price, iffor saie-givihg
to the owner corresponding Garland 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
doorkcepers 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 DC required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
| exhibtion-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost time Of nventioD, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
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, &c. 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
the 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 tit at once for the
press.
5th.sThe delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and cnjoned TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements in Earnings tllage, 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 servera county
societies would make up an 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
Southern Agricultural and Observation-Disclosures
We request individuals who have n surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale, and alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
18th. Premiums.--lt is impossible to name in a no
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miums 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, hat it il 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 on all articles of the highest merit in the
| department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plcments, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium Of q cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti~
cles cup worth vs. will be given, the third best
~. SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth \ 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 dollars--thcse, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
| permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
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 TO this central
point induce ussto invite, and to expect the pre-.
sencc 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, what tits in name, Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pslrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
articles cassed 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 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 to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
| rtc IN fha VNol,,o oIn,
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday 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 Atlants 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 Bups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18th. The Committee have the prospect OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the shernoon to