Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-21
WDRosPECTUs of the FARM Hou,,

of PRACTICAL Agriculture, containing tb.
best mode of culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; fu,
practical Instructions to 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 domestr
animals, and the veterinary art; The de.
scription Of the various arts relating to 40.
ricuIture rural implements and build.
ings: the management and improvement,
iof vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests,
tanks, &c.; the economy, organization
and direction of rural establishment; and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricul.
ure; closing with table of contents al.
phabetically arranged; list Of figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engrayines.
representing the various Implements Ma.
chimes, sets Of Apparatus, Breeds Of Ami.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested aud revised BY
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturiss. belonging TO the Agriculu.
raj Society of France, under the direction
of NJ. L. Bailey. Member OF the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
! lated from the French, with Notes ADAPT.
ing it to the use Of farmers in the United
States OF America, by EIizur Wright, Jr,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re.
serve College, Translator CT La Fontane's
Fables, &c.
Agriculture is the foundation OF all hu.
! man arls--the art for which man was
made, and the perfection OF which is bis
chief happiness and glory as the lord teu-
poral OF this planet Ofthis sublime art
all other arts and sciencas are but Satellites
their business being to wait on, and adornn
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more thar the agricuIturisl needs the
| full use OF his brains, and a perfect COM.
mand Of all the treasures OF human eXPe'
rience. Scthe farmers oflhe United States
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Msison
Ruslique ofthe French, we have NO douh
of their hearty support. Ii is the work Of
all works upon practical agric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive,
France has long excelIed in paoftatte
farming. This is the source Of her wealth
England is rich by coaIs and commerce
Her agriculture is splendid, but sometime:
costs more than 1t comes 10. Those who
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vas
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
Young, Loudon, &c, but those who wish
to get fortune out of the soil, will fnd
the French writers better able to show them
the way. The excellence of French Gle.
mentary works is well known to all t,aeh
ers For centuries the Maison RUstjqae
has been in France, the standard elemenl
; airy work-lhe speIling-book and gram
mar Of farming. The present edition fot
"the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the "march
Of mind By sixty oil the ablest "agroae
mes" France. 1t has all the light OF The
latest improvements, no, only in Frarce
but in all Europe.
William Goblet, one of The most sue
cessfu farmers both in En- gland and Amer
lea, who wrote the best English style and
: the best French grammar that ever was
valued the Maisen Rustique, not only al
, an encyclopedia of farming, but as mean:
+ OF educating ks children. He i?as hi
own schoolmaster. In winter evening"
: his family resolved itselfinto a school, AM
! he thus speaks of the then made OF lbp
e work =" Our book of never failing re
a source was the French Maison Rusliqut
J or Farm House, which. it is said, was Lh
book that first tempted DugnesnOs II thin
!, that was bis nancy the famous phvsicp
J, IN the reign of Louis Kill, TO learn \
: read. Here are all the four-legged az
+ mails, from the horse down 10 The NOUS
portraits and all; all the birds, rer,ie
j. insects; all the modes OF rearing, marae
e ing, and using the tame ones, and of d
!. stroying those that are mischievous; a
e the various traps, springs, nets; all The Ia
g bors of the field and garden exhibited, a
+ well as the rest, Ia plates; and there was
: : 10 any leisure moments. 10 join this irqui
is tive group. to read the French, and e
y them what it meaned in English, whe
e the picture did not sufficiently explain
: self. never have been without COP
OF this book for foity years, except duFir
= The time that was fleeing from the dur
St geons Of Castlereagh and Sidmoutb,
: 1917, and when | got to Long Island, il
i first book bought was another Mais,
N Ruslique." --Adrice 10 Young Men, A,
as 29l.
a Oftbe qualifications Of the translator,
: may be said that he is practical farmt
Il, and in regard TO his translation of La Fo
Il, taine, which has been reprinted 10 En-
al land, an English reviewer confesses th
n he does not know the English writ
IN who could have done il better.''
e TERMs.-The work will be publish