The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-31

80 UTH ERN CENTR RAJ
AGRICULTURAL A00oClATION.
TSAB FiAh Ann9al Fair Of ths Southsrn Cont,
| i ri Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which ID the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The COMMITTEES charged with tho duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem no
cessary to aproper management Of The approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will DO
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
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 ample fund, and WILL
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepiDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees, Qhc 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. Mai. A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be TO
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, II for sale-glving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
to facilitate the abors of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and Clerks, 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, a statement
OF is powers and USES COST time OF invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c. IL
Needle-work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount Of
labor; the age, 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 q premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand, and in style fl 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 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 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 N cturersE Elk change
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
premium.
It'll. Premiums. is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles 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 tn >iore the announcement Of pre-
miums for partii Jar articles might be construedby
someinto an exclusion ola articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widest'scope, embI acng
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 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 S will be given on the third best
~. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles Of the highest merit p the remaining depar!
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. SO the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
ever, general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed 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 &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 70 this central
point induce usao 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 unite with us in making
this institution indeed what tits in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he 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 classeG 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 art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday,
Thursday will be devoted TO saIas--Friday to gem
era re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-