The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-04
SOU HERN CEN II RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhbi-
uon, shall be on the ground as early as rlday 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-keeping
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands OF ITS
oihcers 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.
Sd, 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 Tor eXhi-
iton, sha have first been enieredin the Secretary
book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, flor sale--gisng
To the owner a 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, aud
such clerks as they may need IN The arrangement
and labelling OF articles.
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibtioi--thc 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 ofcuiivation j an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c If
Necdle-wor 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 may he
worth publishing in the transactions Of the Society,
visitors, patrons and members, all will take notice,
that premium viii not be awarded TO any arli-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand and in style fit al once for the
press.
ties are requested and enjoiued to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements 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 of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the seryeral 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
SouthernAg ricutural and NJ: nufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
| choice articles, who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
7th Premiums.-lt is impossible to name ia mo-
ce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
| L.. :
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 construedby
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, emol acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, 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
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth s 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 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 S 5 will be given on the second
pest 70 oU on the uliru an hOnOfj on Inc t0urtll,
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dolIars--these, how
ever, 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 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 a proper management
! 9Th The facilities of getting 70 this central
point induce usio invite, and to expect the pre-
i sencc and contributions of many Of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what ii is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
iUth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his and shall appoint
committees aud assign to them Retrospective de-
PGFments and to these committees 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 enoin
upon all to take noticsthat articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9Th and 10th of August, so that when
the President .sha 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 op Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
rral re-devery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlantp early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual 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.
i3th. The Committee havsxth prospect OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
D Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoons TO
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
, attendance upon the Fair
lith The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
b and others engaged i'll the laborioas business Of
the fair.
o 18th The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIVATION, and to pro
cure far practicable their publication in tn,
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States