The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-10
OUTHERN CEMTRA l.
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.


THE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will behelt
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tt
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 aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tinue open until Friday evening II IS therefore de-
sirable that all persons having arucies ioI exhip
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
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in oil cases. become responsible for the bookkeeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees (the owner taxing 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 M. calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition shall have first been eneredin the Secretarys
book registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor saie-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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.
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 a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If Animal,
the pedigree stock, age mode of raising, &c. If
Needle-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed it, or the amount of
labor; the age, if by children or very old persons
the 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 egible hand and in style fit at once for the
press
5th The delegations Of the several county Soce-
ties are requested and enoincd to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultural andM Observation-Disclosures
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 Tor sale, and moi alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
| 7th. Premiums is impossible to name in a no
ticc like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
NUNS will be granted. However comprehensive
VIC 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 ali exclusion ofall articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, racng
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 on this point perhaps
is that, all articles Of the highest merit in the
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth III will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
~. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
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,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
eve,arc general regulations, and in particular case
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 nc
cessary to proper management
9th. The facilities Of getting 70 this central
point induce usto 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's in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10Th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them Retrospective de-
, Pdrlments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles cassec and arranged in their respective
departments. ih 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
mttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, 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 re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tnung the whole time
Ilth. Amy alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will 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 Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
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