Dutchess ^Agricultural Institute. 36 
DUTCHESS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 
We deeply regret to learn that Mr. Wilkinson of Dutchess, has 
decided to sell his premium farm, as will be seen on the cover of 
this journal, and remove his Agricultural School to the Mount 
Airy farm in Pennsylvania, eight miles from Philadelphia j a place 
long and favorably known, both in Europe and America, as the 
model farm of James Gowan, Esq., one of the most distinguished 
agriculturists of the age, who, we have been credibly informed, has 
under the impulse of an enthusiastic zeal, which he has long 
evinced in a most commendable degree, offered Mr. Wilkinson, 
the use of his valuable place, with its numerous and expensive 
appliances for a term of years, at a mere nomininal rent, on which 
Mr. W. designs opening on the first of April next an Agricultural 
school similar to the one he has had in operation for the past two 
years in Dutchess county, except that the Mount Airy Institute will 
be on a more extensive scale and of a thoroughly scientific character. 
Although Mr. W. has now patronage to the full extent of his 
spacious accommodations, with a prospect of a liberal increase at 
the opening of the summer term, he informs us that one great de- 
sign in his removal is to make his vocation more central, both as 
regards the population and climate of the Union, and that his 
practical course will be adapted equally to the Northern, South- 
ern and Middle interests. 
We have no hesitation in recommending the Mount Airy In- 
vStitute to young gentlemen who have not finished their education, 
whether they design to embark in Agricultural or any other busi- 
ness. From what we know of Mr. W. and the course of instruc- 
tion he designs adopting, even students of Theology or Law, will 
be the better prepared to embark in the study of their profession 
after having enjoyed the course pursued at the Institute. They 
will not only have the advantages of a thorough scientific educa- 
tion, but will be required to assist in the various branches of prac- 
tical husbandry, of all pursuits the most healthful and interesting, 
which course will offer a reliable guarantee to physical develop- 
ment and good health, so common to the peasant, and so coveted 
by the affluent votary of dissipation and luxury. 
