The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-29

AGRICULTURAL AooOCAA 10y ~
vTHE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Gem
mi Agricultural Association, will behel,
during tho week embracing Wednesday, the l4tl
day OF August next, which is the day OF the hitl
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribinQ such general rules they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will bt
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
Cd. The Association has ample fund, and will
in ell cases. become responsible for the saie-keepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees, the owner taxing cnecl
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.
3d. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James nj. Ca!houn, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ition shall have first been enteredn the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giying
to the owner corresponding card-and 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
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
exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, a statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time of nventiOn 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 planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
tho 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 or very old persons
the 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
Ia lesible 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 inn
proveInen,s in farming, tilage, 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 serveral county
societies would make up amount of valuable
Information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society. n
9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernA Agricultural andMsnufa rsExchange
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
premium.
7th Premums.--I is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles TO which pre-
Iniums 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 Of all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widestsscope, embI acne
every thing that is ingenious 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 all articles Of the highest merit in the
apartment OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
elements, and valuable improvements or inventions
an any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 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 IS will be given on the second
best 50. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doars-these, how
prol req afi nd in nart;o
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-
cuarly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, lowers 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
rlda VIC hope they will unite with us in making
thls institution indeed what tits in name, Southern
central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call 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. III order to the perfection of this
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
Monday morning, the committee of reception may
have their lists Of articles, anu the several COM
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meetin. ~ w ednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales rilay to gem
eral re-delivery Of articles. The t',it:en con-
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or al btu, t., ne
foregoing rules, will be published at \ =.
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annual! Grafton will be N,
Wednesday, the day the Anniversary m" G,
Immediately preceding the reports of commltees,
by Col. John Blups, OF Athens, Georgia
18th. 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,