Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-26
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DRosPECTUs of the r.,,

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n OF XIX CENTURY. or Rnrmcjau.! vs
| OF practical Agriculture, conta;,,;nrr 10
best mode of culture adorteJ - luz
Englan Germany and Flando lance,
practical instructions 10 guide the smail
cultivator, the farmer, the director S" naI
the large proprietor in the im,rora
ment OF an estate; the general princinIs,
OF agriculture, and the culture of all tho
useful plants; the training of domes,;o
animals, and the veterinary art, the DO
scrlption of the various arls relatino 70 ~
ricuture rural implements and bnII
lngs; the management and improvement,
of vines. fruit trees, timber, ar jores.s
tanks, &C.; the economy, organizaIion
and direction ola rural establishment, ond
finally, Legislation as applied 10 acr;cun-
ure; closing with table of contnrs al.
phabetically arranged; list of fgures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odica Course O. Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Enoravioos
representing the various implements, Ma.
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Breeds of AM.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised bv
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturis,s, belonging 10 the AgricUhu.
raj Society of France, under the direction
of M, Il. Bailey, Member OF the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adam;
ing it TO the use of farmers in the Unir,d
States OF America, by EIizur Wright, j.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy 10 The Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La Foutaine's
Fables, &c :@.s.. -. ...~.
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 Of this sublime AT,
all other arts and sciencFs are but satellites.
their business being to wait on, and adorn il
with their moonshine. Consequently TO
man more than The agricuIturisl needs the
full use OF his brains, and perfect com,
mand Of all tue treasures OF human cXpe.
rlence. S"lhe farmers ofthe United Starts
view the matter; and in presenting item
with q translation OfIhe celebrated Msi>on
Rustique ofthe French, we have 30 Gouuy
OF their hearty support. 1t is The work Of
all works upon practical agric nture-thp
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelIed in p4ofiqti,
farming. This Is the source Of Der uealih
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 YES.
works OF Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
Young, Loudon, &c, but those who wish
to get fortune out Of the soil, will fud
The French writers better AISLE to show them
the way. The excellence Of French efe.
mentary works is we'll known to all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison RUSi0n.
has been in France, the standard element.
airy work-'he spelling. book and yrsw-
mar of farming. The present edition for
1.-The nineteenth century" has been re
written and brought mp with The "marrh
of mlnd,' by sixty OF the abIesl "agr0no~
mes France. 1t has all the light of he
latest improvements, not onIy IN Frarce,.
but in all Europe
/ William Cobbelt, oae Of The MOST sur
eesstu farmers both in gland and Amer,
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was
valued the Mai>on Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, but as a meals
OF educating has children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itseIfinto school, and
he thus speaks ofthe use then made ofths
work -" Our book of never falling re
source was the French Maison Rusliquc.
or Farm House, hich, it is said, was The
book that frsttempted Dugnesnuis 81 think
that was his nancy the famous physician
IN the reign of Louis XII, 10 learn to
read. Here are all the four.Iegeed AM.
maIs, from I he horse down 10 the mouse.
portraits and all; all the birds, reptilts.
insects; all the modes OF rearing, nanag
ing, and using the tame ones, and of de-
stroying those that are mischevcus all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia -
bors of the field and garden exhibited, as
we'll as the rest, 10 plates; and there was !,
IN any leisure moments, TO Join this iLQnjS-
t tive group. to read the French, and tell
; them what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain n
/ self. | never have been without copy
of this book for forty years, excepr1url
! the time that | was fleeing from the Gun
t geons of Castlereagh aud Stdnourh, m
:. 1917, and when get to Long IsIard, the
, first book bought was another AlalSon
: Ruslique. "--Adcice to Young Men, AL
!. POI. ...:.=
j OF the qualifications Of the trans atOr, Il
: may be said that he is practical armef'
/. and in regard 10 his translation Of La / on
i tame, which has been reprinted in Eng,
a land, an English reviewer confesses tha'
: he " does not know the English writer
t who could have done it betler."
/. TERMs.-The work will be pO5LsneC