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ARTIFICIAL MANURES, &c. 
ATWATER’S AMERICAN COMPOUND OF MANURES; 
composed of fertilizing materials, and is designed for growing gar¬ 
den vegetables, fruit trees, vines, and ornamental flowers or 
plants of every description, as well as for general crops. The 
quantity required per acre, will vary from 30 to 50 bushels, ac¬ 
cording to the condition of the land to which it is applied. Price, 
40 cents per bushel. 
BOMMER’S FERTILIZING POWDER, long been celebrated 
in France for cultivating garden vegetables of all kinds, green¬ 
house plants, flowers, wall fruit, field crops, &c., &c. Quantity 
requisite per acre, from 12 to 18 bushels, to be sown broadcast on 
the surface and hoed or harrowed in. Price $5 per cask of 425 lbs. 
LE DOYEN’S PATENT DEODORIZING, OR DISINFECT¬ 
ING FLUID, designed for destroying putrid smells arising either 
from animal or vegetable decomposition ; also, for immediately 
purifying sick rooms, water closets, sesspools, steerages of passen¬ 
ger ships, bilge water, &c., &c. ; but mainly for destroying the 
odor of night soil and converting it into a fertilizing compound ap¬ 
plicable as manure. Quantity required to deodorize a common 
privy, for three or four months, from two to five gallons. Price, 
50 cents per gallon. For sale by 
A. B. ALLEN <fe CO„ 189 and 191 Water street. 
MOUNT-AIRY AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE, 
THIS Institution is located at Mount Airy, Germantown, Pa., 
(see cut p. 217 of this number), seven miles from the city of 
Philadelphia, and is accessible several times a day both by stage 
and railroad. 
The site is proverbial for its salubrity, and is, in every respect, 
eminently adapted to the objects of an Agricultural Seminary. 
The system of instruction is such as to afford the student 
every facility for acquiring a thorough knowledge of Scientific 
and Practical Agriculture, with the use of the best modern farm 
implements and machinery. But the subjects which receive at¬ 
tention are not such as are calculated to make farmers merely. 
The institution is a literary one, of which the department of 
agriculture forms an important and distinguishing branch, and it 
will afford the best opportunities in regard to commercial and 
classical education. Here, therefore, young gentleman may 
prepare for the Counting House, for College, or for any 
other respectable course or profession. 
To secure these ends, the branches to be pursued, and the fa¬ 
cilities enjoyed, are briefly as follows:—The subjects being arrang¬ 
ed under four heads or courses —the General Primary the 
Agricultural, the Commercial■ and the Classical. 
General Primary Course. 
This consists of the ordinary English studies, and also includes 
simple Book Keeping, general mathematics, as Geometry, Alge¬ 
bra, &c., the Science of Government, and the Principles of 
Laws. 
Agricultural Course. 
Instruction in Natural Philosophy, particularly Mechanics, 
Hydraulics, and Pneumatics, and their connection with the con¬ 
struction of implements, and the movement of machinery. Also 
the Natural Sciences generally, including Elementary and Agri¬ 
cultural Chemistry, with practice in the analysis of soils, and 
their varied products. Mineralogy and Geology, as well as 
Botany, and the Physiological Structure and Economy ot the 
Vegetable Kingdom, will receive special attention. Entomology, 
and other branches of Natural History, will be attended to. 
'Those applications of mathematics which interest the cul- 
turist. will form a portion of this course ; Surveying, Trigonome¬ 
try, Leveling, Mensuration, &c., with the use of Instruments, 
Field Practice, and Mapping. The Sketching of Implements, 
Animals, Views from Nature, and Architectural and Perspective 
Drawing, will receive a due share of attention 
The practical facilities which the institution has the means of 
affording in this course, cannot be surpassed. There are seventy 
acres of tillable land, which has been for years under a highly 
judicious method of cultivation. The farm being that, so favora¬ 
bly known to the agricultural community, recently occupied by 
James Gowen, Esq. 
The students engage directly in all that is connected with eve¬ 
ry description of crop to which the climate is adapted. There 
being an abundance of fruit, and ornamental trees and nurseries 
on the premises, their care and management occupy much atten¬ 
tion. The gardens, the exotic plants, and the shrubbery, are such 
as to afford the advantages of instruction in Horticulture and 
Floriculture. 
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. 
To complete a full course in this department, the term of four 
years will be necessary. 
Commercial Course. 
Book Keeping by Double Entry, Business Arithmetic, and Com¬ 
mercial Forms and Correspondence, will be taught in the best 
manner. 
Classical Course. 
This includes the Greek and Latin Languages, and the neces 
sary preparation for any class in College. 
Other Incidental Studies. 
These embrace any, not before enumerated, that it may be 
desirable for students to pursue. Music, French, and the Modern 
Languages can be advantageously attended to. 
The nature of the institution is, therefore, such, that, here, free 
from circumstances that are repulsive, and from influences that 
are immoral, in a location attractive and healthful, on extensive 
grounds, and surrounded by whatever can incite to study, to 
exertion, and to ennobling employment, students may, by the 
assistance ot competent and experienced teachers, with whom 
they are associated as members of the same family, enjoy the 
most desirable opportunities, and prepare themselves to occupy 
respectable and useful positions in society. 
The year is divided into two sessions ; the first session begin - 
tffng on the first Thursday of April, the second on the first 
Thursday of October. 
Terms $125 per session, payable in advance—including bed, 
bedding , washing, mending, fuel, and lights. 
I his surp embraces all charges for instruction in the four 
courses referred to; it does not include incidentals, but at the 
option of the Principal. 
Address the Principal, JOHN WILKINSON, 
Mount Airy Agricultural Institute, Germantown, Pa. 
REFERENCES. 
James Gowen, Esq., phila., Pa. 
Robert Ewing, Esq., “ 
Prof. Jno. Frost, “ 
Thomas H. Jacobs, “ 
G.W. Dobbin, Esq., Balt., Md. 
Gen. W. H. Richardson, Rich¬ 
mond, Va. 
Zebedee Cook, Esq., New York. 
Tlios. M’Elrath, Esq., 
Isaac C. Kendall,,Esq., “ 
Rev. F. A. Farley, Brooklyn. 
Hon. A. Conkling, Auburn, N. Y. 
Ex-Gov. W. C. Gibbs, Newport, 
Rhode Island. 
Geo. Vail, Esq., Troy, N. Y. 
C. N. Bement, Esq., Albany. N.Y 
B. P. Johnson, Esq., “ 
Robert Farley, Boston, Mass. 
Hon. Sam. Wilde, “ 
Hon. W. ,T. Hubard, “ 
Hon. Francis O.Watts, “ 
R.W.Crookshank, St Johns, NB. 
AMERICAN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM¬ 
PANY. 
Office No 40 Wall Street, N. Y. 
LIFE INSURANCE, upon the plan adopted by this Company, 
is founded upon the principle of contribution in the shape of an¬ 
nual premiums to a common fund, proportioned to the amount 
insured, out of which the Company pay a stipulated sum on the 
death of the assured to the person for whose benefit the insur¬ 
ance is effected. 
After a thorough investigation of the different systems adopted 
in Europe and America, and of the rates of premium charged, 
this company have reduced the premium 25 per cent, payable 
in cash, annually, semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be pre¬ 
ferred, under a firm conviction that the exigencies of the Com¬ 
pany will never exceed and seldom require one half of the an¬ 
nual premium now charged by the English and American Com¬ 
panies, which reduction will still leave a large margin for seasons 
of unusual sickness and death among its members—preferring to 
reduce the premiums at once to an amount more nearly approxi¬ 
mating the actual necessities of the Company than to adopt the 
system of premium notes which is attended with many disadvan¬ 
tages. 
The leading features of this Company are— 
1. A guarantee capital of $50,000. which together with the ac¬ 
cumulating premiums is deemed adequate to meet every contin¬ 
gency. 
2. A reduction in the rates of premiums—payable annually, 
semi-annually, or quarterly, as may be preferred. 
3. The assured participate annually in the profits. 
4. Insurance may be effected by any married woman upon the 
life of her husband, for her sole use and benefit, free from any 
claims of the representatives of her husband, or any of his credi¬ 
tors. 
5. No personal liability of the members beyond the amount of 
their annual premium of insurance. 
6 . Creditors may insure the lives of their debtors, or debtors 
themselves may insure for the protection of their creditors. 
A prospectus has been issued (which can be had at the office 
of the Company, or any of its agents), explanatory of the terms 
and conditions of insurance. 
TRUSTEES. 
Samuel Leeds, Norris Wilcox, 
Frederick T. Peet, John W. Fitch, 
Caleb Mir. John Durrie, 
Sherman W. Knevlas, Lewis B. Judson, 
Henry Peck, James Punderford, 
Eli W. Blake, James E. English. 
Lucius R. Finch, 
BE'NJAMIN S1LLIMAN, President. 
NORRIS WILCOX, Vice President. 
CALEB MIX, Treasurer. 
BENJAMIN NOYES, Secretary. , 
AMBROSE L. JORDAN, Chairman of Local Board* 
Medical Examiners. 
WILLIAM N. BLAKEMAN. M. D., 193 Bieecker street. 
ALEXANDER B. WHITIN G. M. D. : 848 Broadway. j(t 
Ambrose L. Jordan 
Cyrus P. Smith, 
George Hall, 
David Banks, 
G. S. Silliman, 
George D. Phelps, 
WiJlis Bristol, 
