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Oh. XIV. No. 3.
HRoSPECTUs of the FARn uous,

OF XIX CENTURY, or Encyclopedia
of practical 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.
scription Of the various arts relating to 40.
riculture rural implements and build.
ings; the management and Improvement
Of vines. fruit trees. timber, ard forests,
tanks, &c. the economy, organization
and direction off rural establishment: and
finally. Legislation as applied TO agricut,
ure; closing with table of contents all
phabetically arranged; list oil 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. Digested and revised bv
a committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, belonging to the Agricultu.
raj Society Of France, under the direction
of M. L. Bailey. Member OF the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans.
lated from the French, with Notes adapt
ing it 10 the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by Elizur Wright, Jf.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator OF La Foutane'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 TEN.
poral OF this planet Of this sublime art
all other arts and sciences are but satellites
their business being to wait on, and adornn
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agrieulturist needs the
full use OF his brains, and perfect com
mand Of all the treasures of human exPe-
Renee Solh farmers ofthe United States
view the matter and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Maison
Rustique of the French, we have no doub
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 1t comes TO. Those who
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
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 eIe.
mentary works is we'll known to all teach.
ers For centuries the Maison Rustique
has been in France. tie standard element,
airy work-the spelling book and gram.
mar Of farming. The present edition for
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re-
| written and brought up with the .'march
OF mind" by sixty OF the abIest ogronO-
mes" France. 1t has all the light of the
latest improvements, mol 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 Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia Of farming, Blu, as a means
OF educating his children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itselfinto school, and
ne thus speaks of the use then made otlblS
work :-"Our be ok of never failing re-
source was the French Maison Rustlqae,
or arm House. which. it is said was ME
book that first tempted Dugnesnois q think
that was his name.) the famous physician
In the reign of Louis Kill, to learn TO
read. Here are all the four-Iegged ami
mails, from the horse down to 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-
stroying those that are mischievous all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia, :
bors of the field and garden exhibited, as
we'll as the rest, Ia plates; and there was l.
IN any leisure moments, to join this inqulS
tive group, to read the French, and tell
them what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain r.
self. never have been without copy
| of this book for forty years, except during
the time that was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sidmoulb' 10
1917, and when | got to Long Island. the
first book bought was another Mason
Ruslique. "--Adcice to Young Men, All
291. IL" !" ~ .....o
OF the qualifications ofthe trans,a0fH
may be said that be is practical tarme'
and 10 regard to his translation Of La to0,
tame, which has been reprinted in Eng,
land, an English reviewer confesses thai I.
he "does not know the English writer
who could have done it better" -,
TERMs.-The work will be pubils1e-