The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-09

THE Flth Annual Fair Of tbs 9ouAhesn Can't,
raj Agricultural Assbciaa3ony will beheld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, tho 4th
day Of August next, which is thu day or the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia Y.
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general ruies a. they may deem ne
cessary to proper management ofthe approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL RE0ULArIoNs.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t Is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for cxhb-
ton, shall be the ground as early al 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
OF 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 oil any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment 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 see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition, sha have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, flor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abors 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
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time of Invention, 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 ofcultivaton. If an Animal
the pedigree 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 or very old persons
tie value, uses &c. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information 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 art-
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
5lh. 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 tho i'm
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 CT preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral 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
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ .nufacturersEx Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, or 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 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 vet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement Of pre-
mums for particular articles mightbe construed by
somento an exclusion ofall articles unannouncod,
the Committee requests the people generally to
Observe hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scopc, embracing
| every thing that is ingenious or useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary 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 cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
| ~. so on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best g SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
ever are general regulations, and in particular case
| or of thp he
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule.
| 9th. A hall will be prepared and assigned part-
| 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-
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 it is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can 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. i'll 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 CON mitIet of reception may
| have their lists of articles ana the several COM
mittees proceed at once to tac examination of art
| Giles, and thereby have am,,r tima 10 make their
reports to the annual meetin, y. W ednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sa' r., a, TO gen
eral re-delivery Of articles TIL, <H-,,SY con-
| tinuing the whole time
1lth. Any alterations of, or all IT .,
foregoing rules, will be published at
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual Grafton will be ~
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary m e,
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees,
by Col. John Billups, 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 afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur