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OF XIX CENTURY, or Encyclopedia
of practical Agriculture, containing The
| best mode OF culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; FL.
practical Instructions TO guide the small
cultivator, The farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve.
mem 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 arls 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
anddirection of a ruralestablishmeut and
finally. Legislation as applied to agrcuIt.
ure; closing with a table of contents al.
lphabetically arranged; list OF figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
| An Elementary. Complete. and Meth.
odical Course OF Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engfavings,
representing the various Implements. Ma.
.caines. sets of Apparatus, Breeds of AMI
mails. Trees. Shrubs aud Plants. Rural
buildings. etc. Digested and revised by
a committee of Scientific and Practical
kAgricuhurists. belonging to The .Agricuu.
i 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
ling it to- the use of farmers in the United
States Of America, by .Eiizur Wright, Jts
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy 10 the Western Re.
serve College, Translator Of Ia Fontaines
1 Fables. &c.
| Agriculture is the foundation of all hu.
man arts-.-the art for which man was
made. and the perfection of which is bis
chief happiness and glory as the lord ten.
poral OF this planet OF this sublime ar,
lall other arts and sciences are butslatelites,
their business being to wait on, and adorni
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
/ man more thar the agriculturist needs the
i full use OF his brains. and a perfect com,
mand Of all tue treasures of human expe,
rience. Sothe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter and in presenting them
with a translation of The celebrated Maison
Rustique of the French, we have no doubt
| oflheir hearty So pport. It is the work Of
all works upon practical gric utlure-the
most scientific, clear. and compre hansive
s France has long excelled in Paoftatk
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
i have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
q works of Marshall. Dickson. Arthur
Young. Loudon, &c, but those who wish
to get a fortune out of the soil, will fnd
) Elhe French writer's better abeto showthem
1.-The way. The excellence of French ele.
: mentary works is well known1o all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustigne
has been in France, the standard eement'
) airy work-lhe spelling book and gram.
; mar of farming. The present edition for
, "the nineteenth century, has been re.
written and brought up with the INA rch
i of mind" by sixty of the ablest agronO.
/ mes France, hshas all the light of the
latest Improvements, not only 10 France,
but in all Europe.
r William Goblet, one Of The most sue.
5 cessfulfafmers both in England and Amer.
lea, who wrote the best English. style and
! the best French grammar that ever was,
J, valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
: an encyclopedia of farming, but as meaus
Z OF educating has citldrea. He was his
e own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
: bis family resolved ITSELF into school, and
/. he thus speaks ofthe use then made oftbis
d work." Our book of never failing re.
: source was the French Maisoa Rustique
!. or Farm House. which, il is said, was The
f book that firsttempted Dognesnois U think
J, that was his name. the famous physical
{ 10 the reign of Louis Kill, TO learn q
n read. Here are all the four.legged ami
), mails, from the horse down 10 the mouse
!. portraits and all all the birds, reptiles
insects; allthe modes Of rearing, manag
: ing, and osing the tang ones, and of de-
lstroying those that are mischievous al
the various traps, springs. nets all the Ia
bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, a
K well as the rest. ia plates; and there was !
'e in any leisure moments, to join this inquis
Of tive group. to read the French, and tel
. them what it meaned ia English, wheI
d the picture did not sufficiently explain il
e, self. inever have been without cop!
e of this book for forty years. exeep, durn:
: : hestlme that was fleeing from. the dun
d geons of Castlereagh and Eidmouth, i
1917, and when l got to Long Island tn
u first book bought was another Maiso
e Ruslique. "--Adcice 10 Yong Men, a.
"a 291.
e. Ofthe qualifications of the Translator,
may be said that he is a practical farme
ut and in regard 10 his translation of La For
20 tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
st land, an English reviewer confesses tha
IS he docs not know the English write
g., who could have done il better"
TERMs.-The work will be publishe