The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-08

sirable that all persons having articles ior exhDi-
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
"a. The Association has an ample fund, ana WILL
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds tor exhl
iton, sha have first been eneredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
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, aud
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, q minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
| exhibtion---ihe statement to be delivered to tho
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
Of is powers and uscs cost, time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IfHortcultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation. II 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 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 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.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements 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 OF preparation. time of planting and mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing embarrassing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
Observation-Disclosures and NJ xnufacturersE Exchange
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.
7th. Premiums. 1t 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 yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums 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, embracing
every thing that is ingenious 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
is, that, on all articles of the highest merit in the
| department of Stock Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements inventions
| in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth rs will be given on the third best
80. 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth y s will be given on the second
best 8 g so; on the third an honor; on the fourth
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one TO three dolars-these, how
ever ARE 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-
culary to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, DC. 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
sncfi ind, ,ho{.t
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them therrespective 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. lii 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 com, ntlee of reception may
have their lists Of articles, ana the several COM
mttees proceed at once to the examination of artl-
ces, and thereby have ampe TIM to make their
reports to the annual meetin NJ " ednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sal ss rya, to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The Tea con-
tinuing the whole time
llth Any alterations of, or ad.ht ~ =
| foregoing rules, will be published at 4, Il,
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,
to Civ Visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
| 18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business Of
| the fair
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIVATION, and TO pro-
cure far practicable their publication in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States.