The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-10-20
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FARM HOUSE OF THE 18th CENTURY Y

Or Encyclopedia of Practical Agricuhure e.
CONTAINING the best mode of culture adopted in
" France, England Germany and Flanders; full
practical instructions to guide the small cutivaor tho
farm e the director and tho large proprietor in the inns
provsme nj of an estate the general principle of agr
culture and the culture of all the useful pants the train
ing of domestic animals, and the veterinary art; the
description of the various arts relating to ag rcuture
rural implement, and buildings the management and
Improvement Of vines fruit trees, timber and forests
tanks, ETC.; the economy, organization, and direction
of rural establishments and 6aaly, legislation as ap
Piled to agriculture; closing with table of contents
alphabetically arranged list of hsures, abbTeVlallons
and authorities cited.
An elementary, complete, and mathematical course
Of rural economy with more than two thousand sngra.
wings respecting the various implements, machines sets
efapparaus breeds of animals trees shrubs and plants
rural buildngS ETC. Dgested and revised by com.
meS Of scientific and practical agrcultursis, belong
ing to the agricultural society Of France, ander the d
reStion of M T. Bailey member ofthe societies of agr.
culture and horticulture. Translated from the French
with notes adaptsd to the use of farmers in the United
States Of America, by Elizur Wright Jr., formerly
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the
Western Reserve College, translator OF La Fontainss
Fables, &c.
pr for which man was made and the perfection of which
is his chief happiness and glory as the lord temporal
oc this planet OF this sublime art, all other arts and
sciences are but as suteites their business being to wait
on eDligh,en, and adorn it with their moonshine Con-
seuuenty, no man more than the agrlcuturais.
needs the full Of his brains, and perfect command
of all the treasures Of human experience So The far
mers of the United States view the matter, and in pre-.
senng them with translation of the celebrated aaison
Rustia1e, of the French, we have no doubt of their
hearty support II is the work Of all works on prac-
cal agriculture the most scientific, clear and compre-
hensve. France has long exceed in profitable farm.
ing. This is the source Of her wealth. England is
rich by Goals and commerce Her agriculture is pen.
did but sometimes costs more than it comes to. Those
who have fortunes to spend may buy the vast works
of Marshall Dickson, Arthur, Young, London, &c /;
but those who wish to get fortune out of the soil will
find the French writers better able to show them the
way, The excellence Of French elementary works is
well known to all teachers For centuries, the Mason
Rusaue has been in France, the standard elementary
work-the spelling book and grammar Of farming The
pressn. edition for "lhe min eenth century" has beeD
rewritten and brought up with the "rnarch Of mind;
by sixty of the abest "Agrocronome" of France. 1t
has all the light of the latest improvements, not only in
France, 5u: in all Europe.
William Cobbe one of the rnoSt successful farmers
both in England and America who wrote the beat
English syle and the best French grammar that ever
was valued the Maison Rusdus. not only as an ency
copeda of farming but as the means of educating his
children, He was his own schoolmaster, In winter
evenings hi. family resolved itself in school, and he
thus speaks of the use then made of this work;
"Our book of never falling resources was the French
Maison Rusdde, or farm house, which it is said was
The ook that rst tempted DugnesnoiS Il think That
his name, the famous physician in the reign Of LOUIS
XIV TO learn to read. Here are all the four-legged
ANIMALS ffom the horse down the mouse, portraits and
aE all the BIRDS reptleA insects, all the modes OF
ing managing, and using the tame ones and Of destroys
nc those thai are mischievOdS, all tho various traps.
springs. nets all the abors Of the field and garden ex-
hibed as we'll ds tho rest, in patesauG there was
IN my leisure moments, to join this ndusitivs group;
to read the French and tell them what meant in En-
selE never have been without copy Of Eis book
for forty ears except during The time that TsI aosi1S