The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-14
THERN CENTRAL
AcUUC AL ASSOClATION.

TIME Fifth Annual Far oil tho Southern CENT
| / raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the llth
day Of August next, which is the day of the filth
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
list The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII ne
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhiDi-
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.
ID. The Association has an ample lund, ana WILL
in all cases become responsible for the safekeepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
officers and committees, uhe 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 OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty II shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or iegistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor sae-giving
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
doorkecpers 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. a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibiton--lhe 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 ofpantng, 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 or very old persons
tie value uses, sc. 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 Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation. report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provcments in farming, tllage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been in progress OF eing
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 aNamount of valuable
information TO be sent out in Me- published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgrlcutura and IN anufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll. Premiums, 1t is impossible to name in no.
tice 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 all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association tho very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that IS ingenious useful In business
art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are 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 In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium Of cup
worth ! 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 4 S 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 IS will be given on the second
best y. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
Cd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dol,ars--thcse, how
la Il
or cases of peculiar merN the committees will be
permitted, 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, 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 us'to 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 ,whatit in name Southern
Central Agric ulural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
alticlcs 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 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 on Wednesday.
Thursday will 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, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2tk. 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.
l3th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta Stone Mountain, and Decatur,