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PROSPECTUS Of the FARM nous,

IL OF XIX CENTURY, or EHCyct0pedia
/ Of practical Agriculture, containing the
best mode of culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; h
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 dome<ic
animals, and the veterinary art; The de-
scrip,ioa Of the various arts relating toap
riculture; rural implements and build
ings; the management and improvement
of vines, fruit trees. timber, ard ioress
tanks, &c. the economy, organization
and direction of a rural establishment; and !
finally. Legislation as applied TO agricuh.
ure; closing with a table OF conlenrs al. !
phabetcally arranged list Of figures,
abbreviations, and authorities cited. III.
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
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, belonging to the Aericullu
raj Society Of France, under the direction
of M. T. Bailey, Member OF the Societies
Eof Agriculture and Horticulture Trans.
lated from the French, with Notes adap;.
ing it TO the use Of farmers in the United
States oil America, by Elizur Wrig ht, Jr.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
! Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator OF La Fonlalne's
Fables, &c.
Agriculture is the foundation Of all hu.
man arls---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 Ofthis sublime All,
| all other arts and sciencfs are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
( man more than the agriculturst needs the
/ full use OF his brains, and perfect com.
mand OF all the treasures Of human expe.
rience. Sclhe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter and in presenting Them
with a translation ofthe celebrated Msison
Rustique of the French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support 1t is the work Of
all works upon practical agric ulluTe-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive
France has long excelled in paoftatis
farming. This is the source OF Der 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, Loudou, &c /, but those who wish
to get a fortune out of the soil, will find
The French writers better ableto showthem
the way The excellence OF French Gle.
mentary works is well known to all teach.
ers. For centuries the Maison Rusljque
has been in France, the standard element.
; larry work-the spelling book and gram
mar Of farming. The present edition for
"ihe nineteenth century, has been re.
c written and brought up with The "march
, Of mind by sixty of the ablest "agTonO-
mes" France. 1t has all the light OF The
latest improvements, not only III France,
. but in all Europe.
William Goblet, one of the most sue.
cessfulfarmers both in 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 meaus
+ OF educating his children. He was his
own schoolmasler. liz winter evenings
!. his family resolved itself into a school, aud
he thus speaks Of the usethenzmade this
Z work -. Our book of never failing re.
a source was the French Masen Ruslique
mr. N, - Ia
book that firsltempted Dugnesnuis ! think
(, mat was his name.) the famous physician
!, 10 the reign of Louis XII, to learn 10
read. Here are all the four-legged AMI
+ mails, from the horse down 10 The mouse,
portraits and all all the birds, reptiles,
! insects; all the modes OF rearing, manags
e ing, and using the tame ones, and of de-
stroying those that are misehievous all
e the various traps. springs. nets; all the la
3 bors Of the field and garden exhibited, as
J, we'll as the rest, Ia plates; aud there was |,
: IN any leisure moments, TO join this il:qnis,
IS tive group, TO read the French, and tell
y them what It meaned in English, when
e the picture did not Sufficiently explain il.
: self. never have been without a copy
OF this book Tor forty years, except during
J The time that | was fleeing from the dun.
!. geons of Castlereagh aud Sldmouth, il
!, 1917, and when got to Long Island. The
e hrst book bought was another Maisor
n Ruslique. "--Adcice to Young Men, Art
IS pol.
q Ofthe qualifications ofthe translator,
may be said that be is a practical farmer
1, and in regard TO his translation of La Fon
], tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
al land, an English reviewer confesses tia
a. he = does not know the English wrileI
N who could have done il better"
z TERMs.-The work will be published
: : as a semi-monlhly periodical. ia number: