Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-10
PROSPECTUS of the FARM HOUSE,

England, Germany and Flanders full
practical Instructions TO guide the small
cuitivator, 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-
riculture rural implements and build
ings the management and improvement
of vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests, I
tanks, &c. the economy, Organization
and direction ofarural establishment; and /
finally. legislation as applied TO agricuIt-
ure; closing with table of contents al
phabetically arranged list OF figures.
authorizations, and authorities cited.
I 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 to the Agricullu-
| raj Society of France, under the direction
of M. T.. Bailey. Member Of the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
4 lated from the French, with Notes adapt
ing it to the use Of farmers in the United
States Of America, by Elizur Wright, Jf.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Fontaines
Fables, &c. -. -. TIL
Agriculture is the foundation of all hu-
/ man arts--the art for which man was
made, and the perfection of which is: his
! chief happiness and glory as the lord tenn
poral OF this planet Ofthis sublime art,
/ all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agrculturist needs the
full use of his brains, and perfect com
mand of all tue treasures of human expe-
renee. Sothe farmers ofthe United States
| view the matter and in presenting them
with a translation ofthe celebrated Maison
Rustique ofihe French, we have no doubt
of their hearty support. 1t is the work of
all works upon practieaLagric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelled in profitable
farming. This is the source of her wealth
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but sometimes
! costs more than it comes to. Those who
have fortunes TO spend, may buy the vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
Young. Loudon, &c, but those who wish
to get fortune out of the soil, will find
III o ra,o hotTar - ~ h. IL 90.
the way. The excellence of French ele-
a mentary works is well known to all teach
4 fers. For centuries the Maison Rustique
has been in France, the standard element
!, Larry work-the spelling book and gram.
! mar of farming. The present edition for
"the nineteenth century, has been re-
: written and brought up with the :" march
f of mind by sixty of the ablest "ogromo-
mes" France. 1t has all the light of the
{ latest Improvements, not only in France,
/ but in all Europe. d.. ---~....
:, William Goblet, one of the most sue
J, cessful farmers both in England and Amer
! lea, who wrote the best English style and
!. the best French grammar that ever was
). valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
b an encyclopedia of farming, but as means
& of educating his Children. He was his
i own sehoolmaster. In winter evenings
{. his family resolved itselfinto school, anc
s. he thus speaks ofthe use then made of this
Vi work -" Our book of never falling re
:. source was the French Maison Rustique
:. or Farm House, which, it is said, was tht
o book that frsttempted Dugnesnois U thinl
): that was his name, the famous physical
= Il the roino IF ~ 4 :, 49,
is read. Here are all the four-legged ami
mails, from the horse down to the mouse
: portraits and all, all the birds, reptiles
insects !; all the modes of rearing, manag
ing, and using the tame ones, and of de
~ stroylng those that are mischievous al
the various traps, springs, nets; allthe la
* bors Of the field and garden exhibited, a
We we'll as the rest, in plates. and there was !
OF many leisure momenis, TO join this inqnis
g tive group, to read the French, and tel
I'd them what it meaned ia English, whel
e, the picture did not sufficiently explain il
Sc SELF never have been without cop
. ofthis. book for forty years, except durin!
ed the time that was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sidnouth, il
tn 1917, and when got to Long Island, tn
ne ne first book | bought was another Maisol
nd Rustiqne. 'a,--Adoice to Young Men, All
,e- 291. -.
Ofthe qualifications of the translator,
lr5 may be said that he is practical farmer
on and IN regard to his translation of La F'ou
ost tame, which has been reprinted in EGG
is land, an English reviewer confesses tina
g, he 6 does not know the English write
t,who could have done it better.''
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