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PROSPECTUS Of the FARM HOUSE

3 PROSPECTUS of the FARM HOUSE
OF XIX CENTURY. or Encyclopedia
# practical Agriculture, containing the
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
and the veterinary art; the de-
scription of the various arts relating to ag-l
ricuIture; rural implements and build
ings; the management and Improvements
Of vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests,
tanks, &c.; the economy, organization
and direction of 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, under the direction
of M. 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 in the United
States Of America, by -Elizur Wrigh Jr,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in the Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La Fontaine'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 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
mand of all the treasures of human expe-
rience. Sothe 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 agric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelled 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 it comes to. Those who
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
, works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
I Young. Loudon, sc. but those who wish
/ to get fortune out of the soil, will find
the French writers better ableto 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 fol
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re
Z written and brought up with the march
: Of mind,'' by sixty of the ablest !" asgrono
:. mes" France. 1t has all the light Of the
J. latest Improvements, not only in France
I but in all Europe. '...@.s- ~.
); 2 William Goblet, one of the most sue
!; cessful farmers both in England and Amer
g lea, who wrote the best English style ane
:, the best French grammar that ever was
valued the Maison Rustique, not only a
$ an encyclopedia of farming, but as means
of educating his children. He was hi
: own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itselfinto school, ant
he thus speaks of the usethen made ofthi
work :-"Our book of never failing re
: source was the French Maison Rustique
: or Farm House, which, it is said, was tht
f book that frsttempted Dugnesnois( ] thinl
e that was his name.) the famous physician
in the reign of Louis XII, 10 learn tt
d 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, manag
d ing, and using the tame ones, and of de
stroying those that are mischievous al
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
! bors of the field and garden exhibited, a.
d well as the rest, plates; and there was
: in any leisure moments. to join this inquis
tive group, to read the French, and tel
! them what it meaned 10 English, wher
n the picture did not sufficiently explain it
t self. IneVer have been without copy
: OF this book for forty years, except during
: the time that | was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sidmouth, il
1917. and when got to Long Island, tn,
: first book bought was another Maisol
), Rpstqne. '--Adoice to Young Men, AT
o 2oI.
+ Ofthe qualifications of the translator,
!. may be said that he is practical farmer
and in regard to his translation of La Fon
tame, which has been reprinted in Eng