Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-25
V OIL. XIV. NO. 10
EDROsPECTUs of the FARM uor,,

q PTGcttCd( Agriculture, containing the
best mode OF culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders: 1ii
practical instructions TO guide the smah
cul.ivator, the farmer, the director, and
/, the large proprietor in the improve.
ment of an estate; the general princpIes
| of agriculture, and the culture of all the,
useful plants; thss training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art; The de.
scription of the various arts relating 10 40,
riculture rural implements and build.
ings; the management and Improvement
of vines, fruit trees, timber, ard toFes.s.
tanks, &c. the economy, organization
land direction of a rural establishment and
finally, Legislation as applied TO agrcul.
ure; closing with table of contents al,
phabetically arranged; list OF figures,
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engravncs
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
Agriculturists, belonging to The AericuIIu
raj Society of France, under the direction
of NJ. L. Bailey, Member of the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans.
lated from the French, with Notes admit
4 ing it TO the use of farmers in the Umrd
States Of America, by EIizur Wrig bit, Jr.
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
! Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La FoHlaiues
Fables, &c. II.
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 ofthis p anet Of this sublime AT.
all other arts and sciencf rs are but starrrs,
their business being to wait Oh, and adou
with their moonshine. Consequently. no
man more than the agricuturisl need the
! full use of his brains, and perfect com.
mand Of all the treasures of human eHre.
rIence. Sothe farmers ofthe United Sra1s
view the matter and in presenting rhem
with a translation ofthe celebrated MsiSoa
| Rustique ofthe French, we have no doubt
other hearty support. 1t isthe work Of
all works upon practical agric uiiure-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive
France has long exceled in pqoGtaJk|
farming. This is the source OF her weaIfh
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, sc; butIhese who u,>h
to get fortune out-of the soil, will f,d
| the French writers better ab,eto show them
the way. The excellence of French Gle.
menary works is we'll known to al ac!.
ers. For centuries the Maison Rus;Qm
has been in France, the standard eIen,n
airy work-lhe spelling book and cram.
mar of farming. The present edition for
"the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with The "n,arch
OF mind" by sixty OF The ablest "n,oyouo.
mes" France. 1t has all the light of the /
latest improvements, not only in France
but in all Europe. =.
l. William Goblet, one of The most sue.
cesstu farmers both in England and Amer.
lea, who wrote the best English style and 4
the best French grammar that ever Was,
valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, bu, as a npa,s
! OF educating his children. He was hrs
| own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
MS family resolved itseIfnto school, and |
ne thus speaks of the use then made Of this
work -" Our book of never faiino re.
source was the French Maison Rustqae
or Farm House, which, it is said was he /
oook that first tempted Dugnesnois q think
mat was his name,) the famous physician
IN Inc reign of Louis XII, 10 learn 10
| READ. Here are all the four-leooed ami |
mails, from the horse down 10 the mouse,
portraits and all; all the birds. repti:s
insects; all the modes of rearing, manaaf
Ing, and using the tame ones, and of de.
| stroYing those that are mischieyous: all /
the various traps, springs, nets: aItibe Ia.
oo[s OF the held and garden exhibited, as
well as the rest, 10 plates; and there was i,
/ 10 10 any leisure moments, TO Join this nous.
1--WE group, 10 read the French, and itl /
| snem what 1t meaned in EnoTlsb, vhtD 1
'ne picture did not sufficiently explain il
sell: l never have been without q copr !
Of TINS book for forty years, excep, dprGg /
me time that | was fleeing from the dun.
geons OF Castlereagh and sidmouth ID
1917, and when pot to Long Island he
first book 1 bought was another Alaisoa
HuslIque. "--Adcice TO Young Men, At
OF the qualifications oflhe translator, i
may be said that he is a practical farmet
and IN regard TO his translation Of ia For
,alne' which has been reprinted in Eng.
land, an English reviewer confesses t.aI
ne goes not know the English wrGst
] who could have done Il ho,.an,,