The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-05
SOUTHERN CEN IRA l.
InuIu ,TUJRAI ASSOClATION.


day Of August next, which is the day of the iitl
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
criGing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted tile following
GENERAL REGULATIONS. ASIA. -.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhib-
ton, shall be 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.
III all cases. become responsible for the saie-keeping
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 OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association.
3D. Max 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 shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or iegstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classI-
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, 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, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
bar
mode of preparation of land and SOIL manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultyation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode OF raising, &c. III
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 as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,"
visitors patrons and members all will take notGCe
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 fit at once for the
press.
5h The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoned to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provcments in farming tllage, draining and manu- |
ring which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes appropriation. 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 to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central |
SouthernAgriculural and NJ nufacturers Exchange |
We request individuals who have q surplus of |
choice articles, or who make them for le-such |
as choice seeds, machines, stock &c.--to carry |
ihnv>t h.n E,ru In H. 4
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in a no. |
tice like this ali, 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to |
observe, hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful 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
IL, 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 III will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on 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 =. so; On the third an honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dol.ars-these how
everare 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,
.fn u...t:.x up
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
oessary to proper management
9TH. The facilities of getting to this central
point induce us'o invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens OF Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what lis in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
luth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrments, and to these committees SO appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classed 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 enion
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
mlttees proceed at once to the examination of art-
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to saes-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 Atanto 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.
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,
to Civ iisitors'the opportunity of the accommo-
daons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
| l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided