The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-15
SOUTH ERN CEN IRA l.
AGkICuLTUkA ASSOCIATION.

The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crblng such general rules as they may deem me-
cessary to aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
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.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
~ all cases, become responsible Tor the safe-keepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
cheers and committees, Che 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. Marx 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 Tor exhi
iton, sha have first been eneredn the Secretary S
book or feglstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence -and price, for sale-givihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then elass-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abors 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 they may need in the arrangement
and labelling OF articles.
| Attn. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--ihe 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 OF
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and SOIL manure and
| time of planting, mode ofcultvation. If 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, &C. Since this is the most reliable
| mode OF collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,"
viiltors, patrons and members, all will take notice.
that premium will not be awarded to any art-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and i'll style fit at once for the
| press.
5th The delegations of the several county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoincd TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several countless Of the i'm
proyemcnts in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring which have been are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes ofprcparaton. 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.
| 9th. II is desirable TO make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and Manufacturers 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
| a premium.
I'll Il ;... II
ticc like this ALI the various articles 10 which pre-
NUNS viii be granted. However comprehensive
we night 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
somelntO an exclusion OF all articles unannounccd
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widcst'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or 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
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 art-
clcs cup worth will be given, the third best
/ 81 50 on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 3 will be given on the second
best 3 so on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one to three dolIars--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.
Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned par-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needIe-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 70 this central
point induce us4to 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 tits in name, Southern
| Central Agric utural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members 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 cassed 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 enioin
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 NAV
have Their lists of articles, and the several COM
mlttees 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 sales Friday to gen
eral redeivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, VIII be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bi|ups, OF Athens, Georgia
}, l3h 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,
to CIV hsiors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthc good Hotels at those places while in
, attendance upon the Fair. ..