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OF AK CENTURY, or Encyclopedia
OF Praetlcat Agriculture, containing ,bs
best mode of culture adopted in Franc
England, Germany and Flanders. FIJI
practical instructions TO guide the small
,cultivator. The farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve.
ment OF an estate; The general principle,
OF agriculture. and the culture of all tbs
useful plants ;the training of domeslic
animals, and the veterinary art; the de.
scrlptlon Of the various arls relating to 40.
riculture rural implements and build.
lngs the management and Improvement
OF vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests
tanks, &C.; the economy, organization
and direction of a rural establishment and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricun.
nre; closing with table of contents al.
phabeticaly arranged; list Of figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete. and Meth.
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engravines,
representing the various Implements, Ma.
chimes, sets OF Apparatus, Breeds of Ami.
mails. Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, ETC. Digested and revised BY
a committee of Scientific and Practical
Agrieuturists, belonging to The AgricuItu.
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 adap;.
ing it TO the use of farmers in. the United
States OF America, BY Elizur Wright, IT,,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Fonaine'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. Ofthis sublime ait,
all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adornit
with their moonshine. Consequently, 10
man more thar the agriculturist needs the
full use OF his brains, and perfect con..
mand Of all the treasures OF human exre.
rlence. So the 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 Ii is he work of
llworks. upon practical agric uIture-thy
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, &c, but those no wish
to get a fortune out of the soil, will find
the French writers better able to showtbem
the wOy. The excellence of French eIe-
mentary works is well known to all teach.
ers. For centuries the Maison Rus,iQae
has been IN France, the standard element.
airy Work-the spelling book and pram.
mar of farming. The present edition }er
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been Re.
written and brought Up with the ..march
Of mind by sixty ofihe ablest "agrono.
mes" France. Ii 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
Inc best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia Of farming, bu. as a means
OF educating his children. He was his
own schoolmaster. ln winter evenings
his family resolved itseIfinto school, and
ne thus speaks of the uselhen made otlhis
work Our hook of never falling re.
source was the French Maison Rustique,
OF arm House, which, it is said. was tbe
oooK that flrsttempted Dugnesnois n think
mat was his name, the famous nhys;ciap
10 the reign Of Louis XII, 10 learn TO
read. Here are all the four.leoged ami.
mails, from the horse down 10 The mouse,
portraits and all; all the birds; reptiles,
insects; all the modes OF rearing, manap
ing, and using,tae tame ones. aud of de.
stroYlng those that are mischieyous: all
the various traps, springs. nets; all the Ia
bors OF the field and garden exhibited, as
well as the rest. in plates; and there was !,
10 any leisure moments, to join this inquis-
tive group, TO read the French, and tell
snem what It meaned 10 English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
sell. | never have been without copy
OF this book for forty years, except during
me time that | was fleeing from the dom
geons OF Casllereagh and Sidmoutb, 10
del1 and when got to Long Island, The
lrst book bought was another MasOn
Rus'lque. Adeiee 10 Young Men, AIT
Of the qualifications of The trans,,atOr,h
may De said that be is practical farmer
and IN regard to his translation of La Fon
ialne' which has been reprinted in Eng
land, an English reviewer confesses thai
ne does not know the English writer
VINO could have done it better" !