The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-05

| u u i n e n N q EN- i HA l.
T,HE'fisdSS Anas.i Fair s 10 steshsrn Cent,
i rnl Agricultural Association, will boheld
during the week embracing "wednesday, tho l4th
day Of August next, which is tho day oil the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
air, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tlnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and will.
in all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
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 e ga ta
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj, Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exhi-
tion, shs have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASSIC
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 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, 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 ofinvention and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. If horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcultiyation. If 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 1t, 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 notice.
! that premium will not be awarded to any arti-
| Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
Illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in lcgible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
| 5th The delegations Of the servera county Socic-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, OF the i'm
provemcnts in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their ccuntices
the modes of preparation time of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of prescr-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
| Agricultural memoirs from the servcrd county
societies would make up amount of valuable
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
| 9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAg Agricultural and 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. @
i It'll. Premiums is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles TO which pro-
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 theI clore the announcement OF pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
sOmeinto an exclusion of all articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally 10
observe, hat it is intended to give the action OF
the Association the very widest'scope embr acinp
v every thing that is ingenious useful business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
OF exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that, all articles of the highest merit in the
, department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plcments, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any Of the departments, premium of cup
worth III will be given 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-
E ces of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth VS. will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
e premiums from one 10 three dollars--thesc, how
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 pari-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits flowers 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 20 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. We hope they will unite with US in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10TH The President upon a consultation with
such members as he alto 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
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, Will here repeat, and enjoin
upon all 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 sales-Frday to gen.
eral re-delivery of articles The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlantp early
: Monday morning of the Fair week.
| 10Th. The annual! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
J, by Col. John Bilups, Of Athens, Georgia
J., 18th. The Committee have the prospect Of
i making arrangements with the Macon, State and
n Georgia Railroads, TO run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
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