Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-11
HBRosPECTUs of the FARM Nous,

IL OF XIX CENTURY, or Encyclopedia
! of practical Agriculture, containing tb. &
best mode of culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; fu5
practical Instructions to guide the small
cutivator, the farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve I
ment of an estate; the general principles
of agriculture, and the culture of all the
useful plants the training of domeai:
animals, and the veterinary art; the de- 4
scrption of the various arts relating to ae.
riculture rural implements and build.
fings; the management and improvement
of vines, fruit trees. timber, ard foress,
tanks, &C.. the economy, organization
and direction ola rural establishment; and
finally, legislation as applied to agricuht
ure; closing with table of contents al.
phabetically arranged list of figures
abbreyiations, andauthorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth
lodical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engravines,
Representing the various Implements, Ma,
tchines, sets of Apparatus, Breeds of AMI
FINALS, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural!
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised by
a committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, 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 OLA Fontalnes
Fables, &c. ..s.. ..-..-~: ..-
I 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 of this planet. Of this sublime art,
all other arts and sciencs are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adornn
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agriculturist needs the
full use of his brains, and perfect com.
mand Of all the treasures of human expe'|
rience. Sothe farmers ofthe United States
Iview the matter; and in presenting them
with a translation ofthe celebrated Maism
; Rustique ofthe French, we have no doubt
of their hearty support. 1t is The work Of
all works upon practicable eric ulture-the
4 most scientific, clear, and comprehensive,
!, France has long excel!ed in paoftatt
farming. This is the source other wealth
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
4 Her agriculture is splendid, but sometimes
costs more than it comes to. Those who
2 have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
: works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
d Young. Loudon, &c, but those who wish
J to get fortune out of the soil, will fad
:. the French writers better able to show them
i the way. The excellence of French eIe.I
n mentary works is well known to all teach
st ers. For centuries the Maison RustiQs
has been in France, the standard elemeD'
. airy work-the spelling book aud gran
. mar of farming. The present edition for
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re
Ic written and brought up with The "marcbI
:, of mind" by sixty of The abest "agfono'|
i mes" France. 1t has all the light of tie
!, latest improvements, not only in France
/. but in all Europe.
William Goblet, one of The most sue
cesstul farmers both in England and Amer
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever WIGS,
!. valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
Ii an encyclopedia of farming, but as meals
er OF educating has children. He was his
own schoolmaster. La winter evenings
y his family resolved itself into a school, aud
E, he thus speaks of the use then made otlbs
ye work -" Our book Of never failing re.
!. a source was the French Maison Ruslique'
y or Farm House, which, it is said, was he
q. book that frsttempted Dugnesnois e think
t, that was his nancy the famous physician
s. In the reign of Louis XII, TO learn TO
: read Here are all the four-legged AM
Of mails, from the horse down 10 the mouse
!, portraits and all all the birds, reptiles
s. insects; all the modes OF rearing, manag;
= ing, and using the tame ones, and of de-
C. stroying those that are mischievous all
ne the various traps, springs, nets al the a.
g bors of the field and garden exhibited, as
1e well as the rest, la plates; and there was b
re IN any leisure moments to join this NOUS
IT'S tive group, to read the French, and tel
y them what it meaned in English, whet
or the picture did not sufficiently explain II
as self. lneyer have been without ccFI
OF this book for forty years, except duTlD!
e. e, the time that was fleeing from the dor
10 geons of Castlereagh and Sidmouth, .
,r. 1877, and when got to Long Island, ii
ne first book bought was another. Maisot
en- Rus,ique." --Ado5ce TO Young Men, Al
! 'as 291. .#-..
I'M Of the qualifications of the trans,atOr
may be said that he rs practical farmet
al and in regard to his translation Of La FOn
r naI tame, which has been reprinted in E0g-
. land, an English reviewer confesses tba.
n. he 90 does not know the English wria
oh who could have done it betler.''