Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-17
DROsPECTUs of the F.pu uorr-

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- OF XIX CENTURY, or EncUcloned;a
OF PRACTICAL Agriculture, containing th,
best mode OF culture adopted in France,
England, Germany and Flanders fpii
practical instructions to guide the small
cuitlvator, the farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve
m Il OF an estate; the general principles
OF agriculture, and the culture of all the
uselul plants; the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art: the de.
scrlpnon OF the various arts RELATING to ao.
rIeulture rural implements and buiId.
lnags; the management and Improvement
OF vines. fruit trees, timber, ard forests.
tanks, &C.; the economy, orpaniza,;on
and direction ola rural establishment: and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricuh.
ure closing with table of contents al
phabetlcally arranged; list of figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth
odlcal Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engfavines.
representing the various Implements. Ma.
chimes. sets of Apparatus, Breeds of Ami,
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised bv
a committee of Scientific and Practical
Agrlculturists, belonging to the Agricultu.
| 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 adapt
ing it to the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by EIizur Wright, Jr.,
formerly Professor Of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La FOutaine'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 tenn
poral of this planet. Ofthis sublime art,
all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn ii
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agricuIturist needs the
full use Of his brains, and perfect com
mand of all the treasures of human exDe-
rlence. Sothe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation of the celebrated Msison
Rusffqde of the French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support. 1t is The work Of
all works upon practical agric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and Comprehensive
France has long excelled in p,oftaus
farming. This is the source Of her wealth.
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
tier 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, but those who wish
to get fortune out of the soil, vii fnd
the French writers better abeto showthem
the way. The excellence of French eIc-
mentary works is we'll known to a H teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rusliqac
has been in France, the standard element
airy workable spelling book and gram.
mar of farming. The present edition for
"the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the "march
OF mind" by sixty of the ablest "agrono-
mes" France. 1t has all the light of The
latest improvements, not only in France,
but in all Europe
William Goblet, one of the most sue.
cessfu farmers both in England and Amer
lea, who wrote the best English style aud
the best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison 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 itselfinto school, and
he thus speaks of the use then made ollhis
! work :-"Our book Of never failing re-
source was the French Maison Rus.ique,
or Farm House, which, it is said, was The
book that firsttempted Dugnesnois q lhpk
that was his name,) the famous physician
IN the reign of Louis Kill, TO learn TO
read. Here are all the four.leop ami.
mails, from the horse downTto the mouse,
portraits and all all the birds, reptiles,
insects; all the modes Of rearing, manac3
ing, and using the tame ones and of de-
stroYng those that are mischievous: all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
bors ofthe field and garden exhibited, as
well as the rest, Ia plates; and there was |,
IN any leisure moments, to join this inauis-
tive group, to read the French, and tell
them what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explaiu it.
self. never have been without copy
of this book for forty years, excep, durcg
the time that | was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sidmouth, in
1917, and when | got to Long Island The
first book | bought was another Maison
Ruslique. "--Adoiee TO Young Hen, AIT.
POI. -2:>>*..... ~
| OF the qualifications ofthe translator il
may be said that he is practical farmer,
and in regard to his translation of La Fon,
tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
land, an English reviewer confesses that
he does not know the English writer