The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-05
sOUTHERN CEN TRAL
A n 70 ursryT.TyTRAL ARTICULATION

i raj Agricultural Association, will bohoid
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 18th
day Of August next, which is the day OF the NTH
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATION.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
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
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases, become responsible for the saic-keepng
OF articles which may be placed IN the nands OF It's
officers and committees, Uhe owner taxing chock
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, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
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 it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
iton shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, TOR saie-givihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then ciassi-
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such erder
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 LOT
the projection 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
exhibition---the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If 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 of planting, mode of cultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or 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
tie 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 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 i'm
provements in farming, tillage, 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 ofpIanting 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 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. MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have 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
q premium.
It'll Premiums. is impossible to name in 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally te
observe, hat it is intended to give the action o
the Association the very widest'scope, racing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sal,
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 thu
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements and valuable improvements or invention.
in any OF the departments, premium of cur
worth = 10 will be given on the second best art
cles cup worth S will be given on the third bes
50. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth S will be given; on the secone
best 2. SO OH the third an honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from ono TO three dollarsz-these, how
general regulations, and in particular cast
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will bt
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, neede-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 centra
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. VIC hope they will with us in making
this institution indeed what il is in name, Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
lUth The President upon consultation witt
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pfrments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles 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 enjoir
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.
mittees 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 salss-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.
18th. 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,
| 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 rAernoOn IN