314 Mount Airy JlgricuUural Institvte. 
" Particular attention is given to the management and breeding 
of domestic animals. The farm supports a large herd, and the 
students are expected to have the most complete knowledge of 
all that is connected with such particulars." 
"A library of American and European works, and the agricul- 
tural journals of the country, are furnished for the reading of the 
students." 
"A term of four years will be necessary to complete a full 
course in this department." 
" Commercial Course. Book-keeping by double entry, busi- 
ness arithmetic, and commercial forms and correspondence, will 
be taught in the best manner." 
" Classical Course. This includes the Greek and Latin lan- 
guages, and the necessary preparation for any class in college." 
"The nature of the institution is, therefore, such, that here, 
free from circumstances that are repulsive, and from influences 
that are immoral, is a location attractive and healthful, in exten- 
sive grounds, and surrounded by whatever can incite to study, to 
exertion, and to ennobling employment, by the assistance of com- 
petent and experienced teachers with whom they are associated 
as members of the same family, enjoy the most desirable oppor- 
tunities, and prepare themselves to occupy respectable and useful 
positions in society. 
Such is the character and instruction at this institution, and we 
have no hesitation of recommending it to the notice of young 
gentlemen who have not finished their education, whether they 
design to embark in agricultural or any other business. 
RATIONALE OF CLIMATE. 
However great may be the fluctuations of temperature in the 
same months and seasons — however sultry the summer or cold 
the winter, in any particular year, its mean temperature varies but 
little from the climatic or average actual mean of the locality, 
when once correctly ascertained; and, even the greatest variation 
between one year, and any other the most opposite in character, 
and extending over a long period of time, when accurately ex- 
pressed in figures, appears so trivial, that except to the meteorolo- 
gist it fails to convey any adequate idea of the excess or deficiency 
of heat, or of the absolute difference in temperature between the 
periods in question. — Jameson's Jour. 
