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S OUT KEEN CULTIVATOR. 
before the delivery of the premium, each animal which 
shall have taken a premium, shall be designated by some 
badge of distinct on, and led into the ring and around it 
for exhibition of its superiority and high quality to the 
assembled crowd. 
N. B. No person whatever will be allowed to interfere 
with the Judges, during their adjudication ; and any per- 
son who, by letter or otherwise, attempts an interference 
or bias from nisrepresentations with the Judges, will be 
excluded os an honorable competitor. 
The Superintendents will give particular direction to 
all articles in their respective departments, and see that all 
are arranged as near as may be in numerical order, to les- 
sen and facilitate the labonsof the Judges in t^eir exami- 
nations. 
The Superintendents will attend each set of Judges in 
ihcir respective departments, and point out the different ar- 
ticles or animals to be exhibited ; will attach prize cards to 
the articles, or flags to the successful animals after the 
Judges’ reports shall have been made up and delivered to 
the Secretary. 
KE POETS OP JUDGES. 
The Judges will be expected, in all cases, to withhold 
premiums when the article or animal is not worthy, thounh 
there be no competition. Blanks will be furnished the 
Committee to fill up in making their reports. 
Animals having received premiums of the Society at 
previous exhibitions, will not be allowed to compete for 
prizes again in the same cl,ass. 
PORAGE POP STOCK. 
There will be a Forage Master on the ground, who will 
furnish grain and forage at market price, to the owners ol 
stock. 
Stalls will not be furni.shed upon the Grounds of the 
Society for unruly or dangerous animals, 
AWARD OP PREMIUMS. 
The premiums will be awarded from the Executive 
stand, at 10 o’clock on Friday morning. 
SALES OP STOCK. 
The Auction Sale of Live Stock will take place on 
Thursday at 1 1 o’clock, A. M ; but the animals sold cannot 
be removed from the grounds until the close of the Exhibi- 
tion. 
• POLICE. 
A well regulated Police of the Society, aided by that of 
the city of Atlanta, will be on the grounds during the en- 
tire Exhibic^, to preserve Older. 
EXECUTIVE CGM^ITTEE. 
President — Hon. Thom.as Stocks, Green.sboro’, Ga. 
Vice Preside>its~\\on. M. A. Cooper, Etowah, Cass 
Co., Ga; Col. P. M. Nightcvgale, Albany, Ga. 
Col. J, M. D,^v!son, Woodville, Georgia. 
Wm. J. Eve, Esq., Augusta, “ 
Col. J. S. Thomas, Bliiledgeville, “ 
Col. Aug. S. Jones, Savannah, “ 
Maj J. S. Rowland, Cartersville, “ 
Dr. John S. Linton, Athens, “ 
Richard Peters, Esq., Atlanta, " 
Benj. E. Stiles, Esq., Savannah, “ 
Wm. M. D’Antignac, Esq , Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. 
Dr. Jas. Camak, Secretary, Athens, Ga. 
-All persons having business with the Society, or 
wishing information not here furnished, will address the 
Secretary at Athens till the first of September. After that 
tmie, at Atlanta, Ga. James Camak, Secretary, 
Athens, Ga. 
An acre is 4840 square yards, or 69 yards, 1 foot. 
8 1-2 inches each way ; and 2 acres, or 8G80 square yards 
are 98 yards, 1 foot 2 inches each way ; and 3 acres are 
120 yards and a half each way. 
A PLEA EOR AGEICULTUEAL EDUCATION. 
Something over ten years ago, the writer, as Chairma* 
of the Committee on Agriculture in one branch of th^ 
New York Legislature, embodied some facts and sugges- 
tions on the subject of educating practical farmers, wliick 
having been verified by subsequent experience in that 
large and populous State, may not be unworthy of con- 
sideration by Southern planters. The Report from whick 
we cite may be found in the sixth volume, second series, 
of the Genessee Farmer for 1 845. At that time the best 
Genessee wheat sold in Ruchester at from 75 to 80 cents a 
j bushel ; corn at from 37 to 40 cents, and potatoes at from 
18 to 25 cents. Since then, such has been the increase of 
population, and decrease of the elements of food and rai- 
ment in the cultivated land of the State, operating with 
other less potent influences, that wheat is now selling in 
Rochester at S‘2. 70 a bushel; corn at SU 10, and potatoes 
at about the same price. Ten years ago, a poor man work- 
ing out by the day or month on a farm, got a bushel of 
wheat for a day’s work; now be is compelled to give 
three day’s toil for the like quantity of grain or flour made < 
from the same. In the purchase of potatoes, the differ- 
ence is , equally great, and against unscientific labor. 
These are pregnant facts, and are by no means peculiar . 
to New York, in their most significant aspects. In the j 
document referred to we labored to show, among other 
things, the essential difference between working to pro- 
duce property, as by agriculture, and seeking only to ac- - 
quire it, after it has been called into existence by the pro- , 
ductive industry of others. As a general thing, the latter j 
class is better educated than the former, the producers, 
who rarely study the science of keeping and using pro- 
perty ; hence, it is extremely apt to slip out of their pos- 
session. The argument being addressed to laboring farm- ■ 
ers, run in this wise : ; 
“Surely the toiling husbandman needs, if he do not j 
deserve, as many good meals, as much good clothing and , 
as fine a house as one that merely studies to acquire, not i 
produce, the good things of this world. Nevertheless, J 
the fact is notorious, that the great body of our rural pop«- * 
lation somehow contrive to work a little harder and fare 
\\ii\e, poorer than any other class in the community. 
“We learn from reliable statistics that paupers in- • 
crease among us, relatively, faster than population. The 
number that live from hand to mouth, only one step from 
the poor house, is increasing with fearful rapidity. There* i 
are already more than five hundred thousand people in j 
this State wholly dependent on their daily labor for their J 
daily bread. If the Legislature will do as much to leach]? 
the producing classes how to keep and enjoy ike entire pro~r\ 
ceeds of their honest toil, as it does to teach non-producers. , 
how to exchange their shadows for the working man’s 
substance, nine- tenths of our growing taxes for the sup- 
port of the poor and the punishment of crime, will cease . 
forever. According to the official report, the direct State i 
tax for the year 1844, was SVM3,iOO, This will soon be 
$8,000,000, unless we cease to manufacture paupers, crimi- 
nals and needless litigation,” 
Our Southern readers will generally admit that there is . 
something wrong in a system ofpopular education which 
yields as a part of its natural fruit, increasing crops of pau- 
pers, criminals, and litigation. Now, as a comrnunitj] 
consumes the fertility of its cultivated fields, and at thi 
