Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-09-14
V 0 L. XIV. NO. So
DROsPECTUs Of ,he..m

.est mode OF culture adopted in FTan '-s
england, Germany and Flanders. 1I f7,
PRACTICAL Instructions to guide The s, auit
cultivation, the farmer, the director '" ni
he large proprietor in the im,ro u"u
nent OF an estate; the general nripc;n,e
If agriculture, and the culture of all r ,SS
useful plants ; the training of domas,;o
and the veterinary art: tho t Jo
of the various arts RELATING toas
riculture; rural implements and buI5
lngs; the management and improvemoa,
of vines, fruit trees, timber, ard forps'a
tanks, &c.; the economy, orgaDiza.ion
and direction ola rural establishment; and
finally, Legislation as applied 10 agricpJt
ure; closing with table of contents al
phabetically arranged; a list OF figures
authorizations, and authorities cited
An Elementary, Complete, and Na,b
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Enoravinos
representing the various Implements Ma
chimes. sets of Apparatus, Breeds of AMI.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised bv
a committee of Scientific and Practic5I
Agriculturists, belonging to the AericultD
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 adant.
ing it to the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by EIizur Wright. Jr,,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in the Western Re-.
serve College, Translator of La Fonane's
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 tenn.
poral of this planet, Of this sublime att
all other arts aud sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agricuIturist needs the
full use of his brains, and a perfect com
mand of all toe treasures of human eXpe.
rience. Solhe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Mai>on
Rustique Of the French, we have no dout:
of their hearty support. 1t is the work Of
all works upon practical agrIc ulture-t2e
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long exceiIed in P1oflab
farming. This is the source OF her wealth
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but Somerines
costs more than It comes 10. Those WGa
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthm
Young, Loudon, SC, but these who wish
to get a fortune out of the soil, will find
the French writers better able to show them
the wOy. The excellence of French y!e-
nentary works is well known to all teach,
ers. For centuries the Maison RusrQ93
| has been in France, the standard element,
airy work-the spelling book and gram.
mar offarming. The present edition for
1.-The nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the " march
of mind" by sixty of the ablesl "0groao-
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
cessful farmers both 10 England and Amer,
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison RustiqQe, not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, but as a means
of educating his children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itself into school, and
he thus speaks ofIhe use then made of this
| work :-"Our book of never failing re-
source was the French Mason Rustlque'
or Farm House, which, it is SAID, was NE
book that frsttempted DugnesnoIs( u think
that was his name.) the famous physician
In the reign of Louis XII, 10 learn 10
read. Here are all the four-Iegged AMI
mails, from the horse down 10 The mouse
portraits and all all The birds, rePtlle$'
insects all the modes OF rearing manag-
ing, and using the tame ones, ana oil de-
stroyiro those that are mlschleVOus; all
the various traps, springs, nets; al! the Ia
bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, as
! well as the rest, ia plates; and there was l.
many leisure moments, TO JOIN this loquIST-
tive group, TO read the FRENCH anu 'sr'
them what it meaned in English, "0eH
| the picture did not sufficiently sHP"Iu IT.
self. | never have been without wy
of this book for forty years exceP' uU 1r
the time that was fleeing from The u0",
geons of Castlereagh and SIdmou'n' Ia !"
1917, and when got to Long is'Gn0: : .'o
first book bought was another Ni1' s"
Ruslique. '--Adriee to Young IRe"' al"
291. ..
OF the qualifications Of the trans alOI' "
may be said that be is practical 'at Fen'
aud in regard to his translation oil l." ~ ~
tame, which has been reprinted IN E .bs,
land, an English reviewer conieSSeS ,. s4a
he does not know the EngiiISh "'"''
who could have done it better ,r.,o1
TERMs.-The work will be POO''Sns.