Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-04
VOL. XIV. NO.
HDRosPECTUs of the FARM ~

/ Of practical Agriculture, containiDc
best mode of culture adopted in Fra,
England, Germany and Flanders
practical Instructions 10 guide The sn
cultivator, The farmer, the director
J the large proprietor in the irn9n~
ment OF ain estate; the general princ.
of agriculture, and the culture Of an>
useful plants the training of dome
animals, and the veterinary art; the
sscription of the various arts relatinglo,.
riculture rural implements and h
ings; the management and improye9.,
Of vines. fruit trees. timber, ard lare<,
tanks, &C.; the economy, organiznr
and direction ola ral.es,abIishmepi. a,
finally, Legislation as applied to acricy
ure; closing with a table of con.ents
phabeticalIy arranged; list Of Grur4
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Me-,
odical Course Of Rural Economy, w5
more than Two Thousand Engraving,
representing the various Implements, NJ
chimes, sets of Apparatus. Breeds Of A.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Run
Buildings. etc. Digested and REVISED ID !
a committee of Scientific and Practc
A griculturists, belonging 10 the A9rlcOag
raj Society of France, under the directs.
of NJ. T. Bailey, Member of the Socit,s
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Tras
lated from the French, with Notes ADAM
ing it TO the use of farmers 10 the Cnr4s
States OF America, by EIizur WHeht,J
formerly Professor of Mathematics Oh
Natural Philosophy in the Western R,
serve College, Translator OF La F0haae,
Fables, &C. .-...
Agriculture is the foundation of all ha
man aFts-,-lhe art for which man nd
made, and the perfection of which is h.
chief happiness and glory as the lord len.
poral OF this planet. OF this sublime at
all other arts and scienc5s are but stateiis
eirousiness being to wait on, and adom
with their moonshine. Consequently
man more than the agricn!turist ueedSNe
| full use of his brains, and perfect cca
mand Of all the treasures Of human eyHs
rience. Solhe farmers ofthe United S,ata
view the matter; and in presPnlinG ;bta
with a translation ofthe celebrated M9h@
Rustique of the French, we have he could
Of their hearty support. ii is the work 81
all works upon practical a eric uIture-tat.
most scientific, clear, aud Comprehensive
France has long excelied in p1ofto5t
farming. This Is the source Of her Weaii.
| England is rich by Goals aud commefcI
Her agriculture is S.: leudid, but Sone1'ntI
costs more than 1t comes TO. Those WLl
/ have fortunes TO Speud, may buy the vasi
works of MARSHALL, DICKSON, Arid
Il Young, Loudon, SC, but these who vh.
to get fortune out Of the soil, VIII fls
the French writers better hlei zha~, j
rue-w5y. me excellence OF L rtnch ct
mentary works is well known to al. /, all
t ers For centuries the Maison ku>,G&a
has been in France. the standard e.tnea
, airy work-,he spelling book ard er@.
mar of farming. The present edition a
~'the nineteenth century," has been Re.
c written and brought up with the paira.
), of mind by sixty OF the abIesl "ccrmrI
. mes" France. 1t has all the iioh. OF las
, latest Improvements, not only in France
!. but insall Europe.
William Goblet, one of The most Sue
eessfullarmers both in EngIatd and AMs
lea, who wrote The best English STYLE and
The best French grammar that ever w~s
valued the Maison Rustique. not only Is
b an encyclopedia of farming. but as a meat;
f OF educating has children. He was Il;
own schoolmaster. In winter evtnnei
!, his family resolved itselfinto school, al.
!. he thus speaks ofthe use then made Of th@
e work :-".Our book Of never falling re
a source was the French Maisnn Rus,jGos
) or Farm House, which, it is said WAS Il
!. book that first tempted Dugnesnois q hin
/; that was his. name,) the famous phys;c:a
), IN the reign of Louis XII, 10 Itarn F.,
: read. Here are all the four-Ieqoed 81
+ mails, from the horse down TO the NOUS
portraits and ali; all The birds, rcrliic
$ insects; all the modes OF rearing, mana!
{ ing, and using the tame ones, and Of d.
;. stroying those that are mischievous a
leI the various traps, springs. nets; alFtheji
g bors of the field and garden exhibited,
y we'll as the rest, ia plates; and there was
re in any leisure momeuts,,to join this i Of!
Is tive group, to read the French, ana tc
y them what it neaued 10 English, VIE
re re the picture did not sufficiently explain
as self never have been without ccI
OF this book for forty years, except don:
e. the time that was. fleeing from the dr
:, :. geons of Cas,lereagh and Sidmoulh,
r, 1917, and when getto Long Island,
ne first book bought was another MaiS
n Rustique." --4drice 10 Young Men, 4
as POI.
M n OF the qualifications of the trans ator
= may be SAID that be is practical farm
al, and in regard to his transIatiop Of La F,
u u, tame, which has been reprinted in Ell
20 land, an English reviewer confesses Ii
n he does not know the English WI
on wbocould have done it tetter.''
~ TERMs.--The work wilt be publi>h
= as a semi. monthly neriodical In nun.Lt