Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-17
HDRospEcTUs of the FARM HOUSE,

best mode Of culture adopted in France,
England, Germany and Flanders; full |
practical Instructions to 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-
scription ofthe 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 ola 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 Engravings,
representing the various Implements, Ma
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Breeds of Ami.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants. Rural
Buildings, etc. Dgested and revised by
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, belonging to the Agricultu-
raj Society Of France, underline direction
of NJ. L. Bailey. Member Of the Societies
| of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adapt
| ing it 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 Re-
serve College, Translator of La Fontaine's
| Fables, &c. -'..-s..--
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 tenn
poral OF this planet. Ofthis sublime art.
all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agriculturist needs the
full use of his brains, and perfect COM
mand Of all the treasures of human expe-
! rience Sethe farmers ofthe United States
4 view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Maison
Rustique fthe French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support. 1t is the work of
all works upon practical agric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelled in profitable
farming. This is the source other 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 abIeto showthem
the way. The excellence of French ele-
mentary works. is we'll known to all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustique
has been in France, the standard element
airy work-the 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 abIest "0grono-
| mes" France. 1t has all the light of the
latest Improvements, not only in France,
but in all Europe. ....,...
i William Cobbea, one of the most sue
lcessful farmers bothin 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
Of educating his children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
! his family resolved itselfinto school, and
he thus speaks ofthe use then made ofthis
ork:-" Our book of never falling re-
| source was the French Maison Rustique,
or Farm House, which. il is said was The
book that firsttempted Dagnesnois q think
that was his name,) the famous physician
in the reign Of Louis Kill, TO learn to
read. Here are all the four-legged ami,
mails, from the horse down TO the mouse,
portraits and all +; all the birds, reptiles,
insects; all the modes Of rearing, manae-
ing, and using the tame ones, and Of de-
stroying those thatsare mischievous; all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, as
| well as the rest. in plates; andthere was /,
10 any leisure moments, to join this inquis-
tive group, to read the French, and tell
them what. it meaned 10 English, when
| the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
tself. never have been without copy
oflhis book for forty years, except during
the time that was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sidmonh, in
| 1917. and when got to Long Island, the
| first book bought was another Maison
Rns,ique. '--Adrice to Young Men, 4,k.
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/ Oh the qualifications Of the translator, it
may be said that he is a practical farmer,
and IN regard TO his translation of La Fon-
tame, which has been reprinted ia Eng
land, an English reviewer confesses. that
! he does not know the English writer
who could have done il better
i TERMs.-The work will be published