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PROSPECTUS of the rARn non. !.

H4ROSpECTUS of the FARM HOUSE,
OF XIX CENTURY, or Encyclopedia
of PRACTICAL Agricultare. CONTAINING III
best mode of culture adopted in Fsanco
England, Germany and Flanders FIJI!
practical Instructions to guide the small
cultivalor, The farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve.
ment OF an estate; The general principles
ofagricultnre. and The culture of all the
useful plants; the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art; the de.
scription of the various arts relating to 40.
riculture; rural implements and build.
ings lhesmanagement and improvement
of vines. fruit trees. timber, ard forests,
tanks, &C.; the economy, organization
and direction ola rural establishment and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricult.
uFe; closing with a 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 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
a committee of Scientific and PRACTICAL
Agriculturists, belonging to The Agricultu.
raj Society of France, under the direction
of Nj. II. Bailey, Member OF the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adapt
Jag it to the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by Elizur Wrie BIT, Jr.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy 10 the Western Re
serve College, Translator OF La Fontaine's
Fables, &C..
Agriculture IS the foundation of all hu-
man afts--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 ait.
all other arts and scienc IS are but satellites,
their business being to wait on. and adorn il
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more thar The agrieulturist needs the
full use OF his brains, and a perfect com
mand of all the treasures OF human expe
rience. Solhe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter; aud in presenting them
with translation of The celebrated Mason
Rusiique of the French, we have no doubt
Of their hearty support, Il is the work of
all works upon practical agFic nlture-the
most scientific, clear, aAd comprehensive,
France has long excelled in profitable
| farming. This is the source Of her wealth
Englandis rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but sometimes
costs more thanit comes 10. These who
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
| works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
Young, Loudon, &c, but these who wish
to get fortune out of the soil, will find
the French writers better ableto show them
the way. The excellence of French ele-
menlary works is well known TO all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustiqne
has been in France, the standard element
airy work-the spelling book aud gram
mar of farming. The present edition fOs
"the nineteenth century, has been re-
written and brought up with the march
Of mind" by sixty oflhe ablest "agrono-
mes France. 1t has all the light of the
latest improvements, not only in France,
but in all Europe
William Goblet, one of the most sue
cessfulfarmers both 10 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
anenc yclopedia of farming, but as means
OF educating has children. He was his
own schooimaster. In winter evenings
4 his family resolved itselfinto school, and
he thus speaks ofihe use then made of this
work -" Our book Of never failing re-
source was the French Maison Rustique,
or Farm House., hich, il is said, was the
book that hrsttempted Dugnesnois (Ithink
| that was his name.) the famous physician
10 the reign of Louis XII. to learn 10
read. Here are all the four-legged ami.
mails, from The horse down 10 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-
stroying those that are mischievous all
the various traps, springs. nets; all the la
bors Of the field and garden exhibited, as
well as the rest, ia plates; and there was |,
10 any leisure moments 10 join this inquis,
tive group, 10 read the French, and tell
| :hen what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain il
self. | never have been without a copy
| OF this book for forty years, except during
the tine that was fleeing from the dun.
geons of 1Castlereagh and Sidmouth, in
1917. and when got to Long Island. the
i first book | bought was another Malson
Rnslique. "--Adriee 10 Yang Men, 41t
| 2ef.
OF the qualifications Of the Translator, il
may be said that be is practical faTmer
and in regard to his translation Of La Fon
taine, which has been reprinted 10 Eng.
land, an English reviewer confesses thai
he 6 does not know the English writer
who could have done itbeuer.''
j TERMs.-Tbe work will be published