The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-27

AGRlCULIUAAk AS0VCbAAION'
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which is the day of 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 to proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will De
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibi
ton, shall be on the ground early es 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
in all cases, become responsible for the sae-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
3d. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
lion, sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence--and price, iffor sale-givlng
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fled 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 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
EVIL the atata tn he n he
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. lie Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time ofplantng, mode of cultivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &C. Ii
Needlework 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 may be
worth publishing in the transactions ofthe 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, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, 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 ofpreParation. time ofplanting 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 an 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
and M.nufacturersEx Exchange
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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
q premium.
| 7th Premiums. is impossible to name in a no.
tce 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
somento 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 embI acnp
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 arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
So. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
i cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so; on the third an 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 are requested, to vary the rule
8th hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
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 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
this institution indeed, what tits 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 classeG 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 enjon
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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
i reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Frday to gen
or -1oItv unCn oil
tnung the whole time.
! llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annual GRAFTON will be made OF
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 O.
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