Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-24
DRosPECTUs of the FARM HOUSE,


of practical Agriculture. containing the
best mode of culture adopted in France.
England, Germany and Flanders; full
practical Instructions 70 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 domestic
animals, and the veterinary art; The de-
scrption Of the various arts relating to ag-
ricuIture; 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
odicaI 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
Agriculturisis. belonging to the Agricultn-
raj Society of France, under the direction
of NJ. I. Bailey, Member Of the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adapt
ing it TO the use of farmers ia the United
States OF America, by Eizur Wright, r.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Fontaine's
Fables, SC. H.: .-....
I Agriculture IS the foundation of all hu-
man arts---,he art for which man was
made, aud the perfection of which is his
chief happiness and glory as the lord tenn
poral oil this planet Ofthis sublime art,
all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonslfine Consequently, no
man more thar the agricuIturist needs the
full use OF his brains, and perfect COM
mand Of all the treasures of human expe.
rience So the farmers ofthe United States
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Msison
Rustique of the French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support 1t is the work Of
all works upon practical agric uiture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive
France has long excelled in profitable
farming. This is the source Of her wealth
f England is rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but sometimes
costs more than it comes 10. Those who
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
i H. II A fns1r
!, Young, Loudon, &c, but those who wish
to get fortune out of the soil, will find
. the French writers better ableto showthe
the way The excellence of French ele-
mentary works is well known to all teach
! ers. For centuries the Maison Rustique
has been ia France. the standard element
airy work-the spelling book and gram.
: mar Of farming. The present edition for
j 1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re-
!; written and brought up with the So march
!; Of mind" by sixty of the abIest "ogrono-
mes" France. 1t has all the light of the
!; latest Improvements, not only in France,
but in all Europe. .-s~ ..
5 William Goblet, one of the most sue
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
an encyclopedia Of farming, but as means
/ tof educating his children. He was his
. own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
f his family resolved itselfint school, and
e he thus speaks ofthe uset then made tthis
work -" Our book of never failing re.
source was the French Maison Rustique
E or Farm House, which, it is said, was The
) book that firsttempted Dugnesnois q think
!, !, that was his nancy the famous physician
in the reign of Louis XII, to learn to
b read. Here are all the four-egged ami
e mols, 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-
t stroying those that are mischievous all
! the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia.
I bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, as
! well as the rest. il plates; and there was [
/, 10 any leisure moments, TO join this inquis
tive group, to read the French, and tel
them what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
$ self. | never have been without copy
3 of.this book for forty wears, except during
/, the time that was fleeing from the dun
!, geons of Casllereagh and Sidmouth, il
:. 1917, and when got to Long Island, The
: FIRST book bought was another Maisor
Rnslique. "Adciee 10 Young Men, Art
29l r.
Ofthe qualifications of the translator, i
may be said that he is practical farmer
: and in regard TO his translation Of La Fon
b tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
Z land an Enulish repiemer cnnfasses fha