The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-27
OUTHERN CEN T RIA l.
AGRICnITURAL ASSOClATlON.

/ SOUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the llth
day Of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS. gar.,,
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as rlday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
| I'd. The Association has an ample iund ana Will
in all cases become responsible for the safe-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 Far, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample tins 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. Mark 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 exhl-
ition shall have first been eneredin the Secretary
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name and residence--and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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, 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, statement
of is powers and uses cost time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &C. II
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 art-
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 Socic-
lies are requested and enjoined to make out upon
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| Agriculture in their several countless 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 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 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 M.nufacturcrsExcha
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
| q premium.
It'll. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in a no
tice like this ALL the various articles to which pre-
| NUNS 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-
mi,ms 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 widest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or 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
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments premium of q cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
~. SO; on the fourth an honor. And all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 3. so; on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
, premiums from one to three dollars--these, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular
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 neede-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 TO this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions of many Of fellow
! citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with us in mekng
this institution indeed, what is in name Southern
, Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 casseG 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 enoin
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 to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
r 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 Atlanta 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,
i, by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
i, 18Th. The Committee have the prospect OF
: making arrangements with the Macon, State and
a Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to