Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-07-13
DRosPECTUs Of the Farm HOUSE


best mode of culture adopted in France,
England, Germany and Flanders; foil
practical Instructions TO guide the small
cultivation, 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 tie
useful plants the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art The, de-
.scription of the various arts relating to ag-
riculture rural implements and build
ings; the management and improvement
of vines. fruit trees. timber, ard forests.
tanks, &c.; the economy, organization
and direction of a rural establishment and
finally. Legislation as applied to agricult-
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 Engrayings,
representing the various Implements. Ma
chimes, SETS Of Apparatus, Breeds of AMI
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Building 6, etc. Digested and revised By
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agricalturists, belonging to The Agricultu-
raj Society of France, under the direction
of M. T. Bailey. Member Of the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adap.-
/ ing it to the use of farmers in the United
States of America, by Eiizur Wright, IT.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in tire Western Re-
serve College, Translator OF Ia Fon:aine's
Fables, &C.. 80 -
Agriculture is the foundation of all hui
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 1t
| with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agricuiturist needs the
/ fall use OF his brains, and perfect CON-
mand of all the treasures of human expe-
rieuce. ethe farmers ofthe United States
/ view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Maison
Rustique of the French, we have odoubt
of their hearty support. 1t is the work OF
all works upon practical agric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
FRANCE has long excelied in profitable
farming. This Is the source OF herweallh
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
4 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
f to get fortune out of the soil, will find
the French writers better ableto showthem
the way. The excellence of French ele-
mentary works is well knownto all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustique
has been in France, the standard element
airy work--ihe spelling book and gram.
mar of farming. The present edition for
, "the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the "march
; of mind" by sixty of the ablest "agrono.
mes" France. 1t has all the light of the
: latest improvements, not only ia France.
e but in all Europe. --es =.
Y William Goblet, one of the most sue.
It cessful farmers both in England and Amer
III lea, who wrote the best English style and
Il the best French grammar that ever was
valued the Maisun Rustique, not only a.
= an encyclopedia of farming, but as a mean
lof educating lis children. He was hi
Il own schoolmaster. In winter evening
his family resolved itself into school, an
he thus speaks ofihe use then made ofthi
ID work Sour book of never failing &c
=; source was the French Maison Rustiqu,
I'd or Farm House, which. it is said, was ID
- book that frsttempted Dugnesnois u thin
r. that was his name.) the famous physical
et- in the reign of Louis Kill, to learn 1
read. Here are all the four-legged an
Six mails, from the horse down TO the nous
ii portraits and all all the birds, reptile
insects; all the modes OF rearing, mana
Al ing, and using the tame ones. and of d
to stroyings those that are mischieyous {
A. the various traps, springs, nets; all the !
Iiss bors of the field and garden exhibited,
well as the rest, 10 plates : and there was
"a" in any leisure moments, to Join this inqu
tive group, to read the French, and L
them what it meaned 10 English, VIII
IS the picture did not sufficiently explain
self. I never have been without co
of this book for forty years, except durii
1.-The time that was fleeing from the du
geons of Castlereagh and Sidmouth,
1877, and when got to Long Island, I
COZ first book | bought was another Mats
St Rus,ique." --AdUiee 10 Young Hen, a
lind 29I. -..-zs....z.9
the Ofthe qualifications of the translator
s s;1 may be said that be is practical farm
and in regard to bis translation of La z
lion, ltaine, which has been reprinted in Fl
land. an English reviewer confesses t
fant he g does not know the English wr
M who could have done II better"
TERas.-The work will be publis
as semi-monthly periodical, in numb
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