Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-02-01
VOL. KY. NO. 20

= l.. Ky N O. 20
WBROsPECTUs. Of the FARM norss
"a OF XIX CENTURY, or EncyctopeIla
OF practical Agricui!are, containing tbg
best mode OF culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; ng
practical instructions to guide the snf3iI
cultivalor, the farmer, the director, and
THE large proprietor in the improve.
ment of an estate; the general principles
of agriculture, and the culture of al. the
useful plants; the training Of domestic
.animals, and the Veterinary art; the de-
scTption of the various arts relating to 49,
rieuiture rural Implements and bui.d.
ings: the management and improvement,
Of vines, fruit trees, timber, AID iares,s
tanks, &c; the economy, organization
and direction of a ruraI establishment ana
finally, Legislation as applied to agricuIr.
lure; closing with table of cou,en,s al.
alphabetically arranged; a list of figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odicar Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand En9favincs
Representing the VARIOUS Implements. Ma.
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Breeds of AMI
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, R.ua}
Buildings, ETC Digosted ard revised IT,
a committee of Scientific and PracucaI
Agriculturists, belonging to the A3rlcuu.
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 adan;-
! ing it 10 the use of farmers in the Unnrd
States Of America, BY Elizur Wright. IT,.
formerly Professor Of Mathematics ari
Natural Philosophy in he Wts>erM Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Fon,2,uys
Fables, &c
Agriculture is the foundation Of al 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.
porai OF this planet Ofthis sublime ant.
all other arts and scienc IS are but stateINeS,
their business being to wait 90, and adom it
with their moonshine. Consequ, ia
1 man more thar the agriculturist necd>ih
Julius Of his brains, and a perfect COM
mand Of all the treasures of hunan expo.
/ rience Srthe farmers ofthe United S'a.ts
view the matter; and IN presenting Ihvm
with a translation Of The celebrated Nlaiscn
| Rustique of the French, we have 10 doutI
OF their hearty support. 1t is The work o.
all works upon practical erie ulure-tbr
most scientific, clear, and eonprehtt siyr,
/ France has long eXcellcd in p9oftot's
4 for l. ,
England is rich by Goals and commerce
Her agriculture is splendid, but some'in.tS
costs more than 1t comes TO. Those y ho
have fortunes to spend, may buy the VS..
works of Marshall, Dickson, .Arhur
\ I Dung, Loudon, SC, but those who " 1>h
To get a fortune ont Of the soil, Will fll
| he French writers better able to show them
the way. The excellence of French rc.
meniarv works is we'll known 10 al t,tra,
ers. For centuries the Maison Russia.
has been in France, the standard tltu,,D2-
; airy work-lhe spelling book ard Hnn,
mar Of farming. The present edition .",
"the nineteenth century," has been It.
:, written and brought up with lie "rnarcs
, fot mind" by sixty oflhe ablest "agTo&..
mes" France. 1t has all the lie BIT OF tie
latest improvements, not only iii Ffate,.
. but in all Europe
William Goblet, one Of the most suc.
cesSfui farmers both in England aud Anr,.
s lea, who wrote the best English st, it AID
The best French grammar that ever VS.,
valued che Maison Rostiqoe, not only as
, an Encyclopedia of farming, but as meaI
r OF edacatiag has c3ddren. He was Ii.
oWn schoolmaster. In Wintcr eveutn =,
: his family MISUNDERSTANDING school. .rd
he thus speaks Of The use then made otra
e work :-'sOur book Of never falling II.
source was the Freneh Maison Rust1n*
!. or Farm House, which, il is said, was Il.
DOOR that tlrsttemFted Duenesnois q hi
that was his nancy the famous phys;ca
! 10 the reign Of Louis Kill, 10 learn t.
! read, Here are all the four-Ieggtd 2ni
f mails, from the horse,down 10 The mogisc
!, portraits and all ;saif The birds, Replies
: insects; all tie modes of rearing, n,arac
ing, and using the tame, ones, and # DE-
! stroYlng those that are mise us: d.
e the various traps, springs, nets; all H. II
g bors OF the field and garden exhibited. d
we'll as the rest, ii plates; and there VAS /
: : 10 any leisure moments, 10 join This II Gus
IS tive group, to read the French, and I'll
y them what it meaued in English, Wht1
: the picture did not Sufficiently explain it.
: self. | never have been without cry
; q ms book Tor forty y ass, except tUrN
: The tine that was fleeing from the 1rn
. aeons Of Casllereaqh and Sdmculh, il
r = 1917 and y hen / get to Long Iso"d, HI
le hfst book bought was another Alojsot
n = Rostique. "---Adcice 10 Yong Men, A.
as gel
n Ofthe qualifications ortte trans a'or.
may be SAID that he is practical G.rG"f
d. and ID regard TO his Translation Of La 7"
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