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IDRosPECTUs Of the FARM HOUSE

WDROSPECTUS Of the FARM HOUSE
or XIX CENTURY, or EncyetopediGi
Of practical Agriculture. containing the
best mode of culture adopted in France,
England, Germany and Flanders; full
practical instructions 10 guide the small |
cultivator. the farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve
ment OF an estate; the general principles
of agriculture. and the culture of all the
useful plants; the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art the de-
scription ofthe various arts relating to ag-
ric1iture rural Implements and build
ings; the management and improvement
Of vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests.
tanks, &c.. the economy, organization
and direction ofarural establishment !; and
finally. Legislation as applied TO agricult- |
ure; closing with a table of contents al
| phabeticaliy arranged; list OF figures,
labbreviations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engravings,
Representing the various Implements, Ma
chimes, sets Of Apparatus, Breeds Of Ami.
mails, Trees. Shrubs aud Plants. Rural
Buildings. etc. Digested and revised by
committee of Scientific and Practical
/ Agriculturists. belonging tothe Agricultu.
4 raj Society of France, under the direction
of NJ. Bailey Member of the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
Hated from the French, with Notes adapt
Ing it TO the use Of farmers in the United
States Of America. by Etizur Wright, IT.,
formerly Professor Of Mathematics and
| Natural Philosophy 10 The Western Re-.
| serve College, Translator Of La Fontaine's
Fables, &c. r., IS,
/ Agriculture Is the foundation of all hu-
man arts-.-lhe art for which man was
1 made, and the perfection of which is, his
4 chief happiness and glory as the lordtem-
} poral of this planet Of this sublime art
all other arts and scienc IS are butstatelites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently. no
: man more than the agrlcuiturist needs the
full use OF his brains, and perfect com
: mand Of all the treasures of human expe-
4 rience, So The farmers ofthe United States
+ view the matter and in presenting them
i with translation of the celebrated Maison
: Rustique oflhe French. we have no doubt
lof their hearty support. It is the work OIL
A all works upon practical grie ulture-the
: most scientific, clear, and Comprehensive
! France has long eycelted in profitable
D farming. This isthe. source other wealth
!. England is rich by Goals and commerce.
n Her agriculture is splendid, but sometimes
;. costs more than 1t comes to. Those who
, have fortunes TO spend, may buy the vas
!. works of Marshall Dickson, Arthur
/. Young. Loudon, Sc but those who wish
!. to get fortune out Of the soil, will fnd
the French writers better able to show then
: the wJy. The excellence of French ele
mcntary works is we'll knows to all teach
" ers. For centuries the Maison Rustiq1,
has been in France. the standard element
II airy work-rhe spelling book and gram
: mar Of farming. The present edition fo
: 1.-THE nineteenth century, has been re
al written and brought up with the " narcl
= Of mind" by sixty of the ablest4" agrono
mes" France. II has alEthe light of th,
q latest Improvements, not only in France
!, but in all Europe S,>>. { - 81. - ....
81 William Goblet, one of The most sue
: cessful fafmersb both in England and Amer
] lea. who wrote the best English style an
: the best French grammar that ever was
= valued the Maison Rustique, not only a
e Z. an encyclopedia of farming, but as mean
- Of edueatiag has. children, He was hi
T. own schoolmaster. In winter evening
! his family resolved itselfinto school, an
:; he thus speaks of he use then made fthi
- work -" Our book Of never falling re
: source was the French Maison Rustiqat
- or Farm House, which. il is said, was lh
. book that frsttempted DugnesnoislI thin
:, that was his name The famous physical
~ in the reign of Louis XII, TO learn /
read. Here are all the four.legged an
! mails, ION the horse down 10 the nous,
portraits and all all the birds, reptile;
insects; all the modes ofrearine, nlanae
ing, and using the tame ones, and of de
stroying those that are mischievous;
TX the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia
We bors ofthe field and garden. exhibited, a
of well as the rest, in plates; and there was
&c IN any leisure moments, TO Join this inau
tive group, to read the French, and te
ed them what it meaaed ia English, whe
80 80 the picture did not sufficiently explain i
b. self. never have been without cop
n. ofthls book for forty years, except durin
60 the time that was. fleeing from the dur
), geons Of Castlereagh and Sidmoutb, j
ba 1917. and when GIT to Long lsland, tn
is first book | bought was another Afaiso
nd Rusiique." Adcice to Young Men, n
'e- gel. $3.50.
ii Ofthe qualifications Of the trans atur.
nd may be said that he is a practical. farmel
on and in regard to Discrimination Of La For
,st tame which has hey, renrintad In T.