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Y O l.. XIV. N O.. g.
of the FARM mons,

OF FT1csscdt agriculture, containing the
best mode OF culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders: full
practical Instructions 10 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.
scriplion Of the various arts relating 10 az.
ricuture 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 agricuh
Iure; 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 Engrayines
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
AgricuIturists belonging to The Agricultu.
raj Society of France, under the direction
of M. T. Bailey, Member OF the Socielie,
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans.
lated from the French, with Notes adap;.
| ing Il to the use Of farmers in the United
States OF America, by Elizur Wrie bit, j..
| formerly Professor of Mathematics and s
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re.
serve College, Translator OF La Fontalnes
Fables, &c.
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 ten.
poral OF this planet. Ofthis sublime All,
/ all other arts and sciences are but Satellites
their business being to wait on, and adornn
/ with their mooushine. Consequently, no
man more than the agriculturist needsthe
! 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 Maison
Rustique of the French, we have no doubt
of their hearty support. 1t is The work OF
all works upon practical agrie ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelIed 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 1t 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
the French writer's better abeto showthem
the way. The excellence of French ee-
mentary works is well known to alfteach.
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustlque
has been in France. the standard element
airy work-the spelling book and gram.
J mar of farming. The present edition for
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re.
written and brought up with the ''manh
of mind by sixty of the ablest "agr0aO
mes" France. 1t has all the light of The
latest improvements, not only in France,
bat in all Europe.
William Goblet, one of the most sue
cessful farmers both in Fog land 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
t OF educating has children. He was his
own schoolmaster. La winter evenings
his family resolved itselfinlo school, ard
he thus speaks of the use then made oftbb
work." Our book of never falling re.
: source was the French Maison Ruslique
or Farm House, which. il is said, was The
book that firsttempted Dugnesnois q think
. that was his nancy the famous phgsician
e In the reign of Louis XII. 10 learn 10
) read. Here are all thesfeur-leg AMI
portraits and all; all the birds, reptiles
] insects; all the modes of rearing, manag'
81 ing. and using the tame ones, and of de-
lstroying those that are mschievous; all
{ the various traps, springs, nets; all the
i bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, as
well as the rest, in platesi and there was
! in any leisure moments, to join this NOUS,
J tive group, to read the French, .ana lei'
them what it meaned in Englsh, when
i the picture did not sufficiently explain H.
: self. | never have been without copy
! of this book for forty years, except dOn1S
The time that | was fleeing from the dpD'
i geons of Casllereagh and Sdnoui6' 10
1917. and when got to Long Island, mS
5 first book bought was another @s'.
Rusiique. "--Adriee TO Young NeF' a"
. 29l.
! Ofthe qualifications of the trans: at0tN
j may be said that he is practical farns'
:, and in regard TO his translation of LaFOu
! tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
land, an English reviewer coDfesseS IuS
he :" does not know the English WFIs'
who could have done il better"
!. TERMs.-Fhe work will be pubisns-
as semi-monthly periodical. 10 numOs5j