Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-10
HDROSPECTUs Of the F.pm p,,m

england Germany and Flanders: foil
practical instructions TO guide the small
cultivator, the farmer, the director, md
Tue large proprietor in the improve
ment OF an estate; the general principles
OF agriculture, and the culture of all the
use'ot pants the training of domestic
a"'.I'atS' aod the veterinary art; the de.
cf1Pllon OF The various arts relating to 40.
ticutnre rural implements and build.
lneS' 'he management and improvement
OF vines, fruit trees, timber, ard ;oros.s
tanks, &C.; the economy, orpan;za,;on
aud direction ola rural establishment, aUd
finally, legislation as applied TO aoricnlt.
ure; closing with table of contents al
phabetIcaliy arranged list of 6cnres
authorizations, and authorities ci,ed
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odcal Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Enoiavjnos
representing the various implements AIa'
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Bteeds of AMI
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested AID revised hv
committee Of Scientific aud Practical
Agriculturists, belonging to The A oricuItu.
raj Society of France, uuder the direction
of NJ I. Bailey, Member of the Societies
OF Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes adan,-
ing it TO the use of farmers IN the Uuj',
States OF America, by Ejizur Wrie ht, Jr.
formerly Professor OF Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy 10 he Western Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Foulane's
Fables, &c.
Agriculture IS the Foundation OF al! bu-
man arts--the art for which man was
made, and The perfection of which is his
chief happiness and glory as The ford tenn
poral OF this planet Oflhis sublime ait,
all other arts and sciences are bu, satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adotn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, 70
man more thar the agricuturl>t ueeGs tie
full use OF his brains, and perfect cou-
niand of all tne treasures of buman eyre-
rlence. Snthe farmers ofthe United Stats
view the matter; and in preS"nirq them
with translation ottht celeb aled Nsi>,.
RuStique OF the French, we have no toutt
OF their hearty support il is he wopN Ct
all works upon practical a9ric uIture-tAe
most scientific, clear, and compIehe, S,vr,
france has long eXcelied in p3cfio5Ie
farming. This is the source OF her vca.jh.
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but <omrtiurS
costs mole than 1t comes to. Those uIo
have fortunes TO spend, may buy the vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
Young, Loud0n, SC, but those who wash
to get a fortune out Of the soil, will it'd
the French writers better able to show thtm
the way. The excellence Of French rIe-
mcntary works is well known TO all teach.
trs. For centuries the MaisoM EUStQue-
has been in France, the standard rituthl-
airy Work-the speihng- book AID yy"su-
rnar OF farming. The present edition tor
the njnetcrnth century," has been re-
written aud brought up with the "uurch
Of minG." by sixty Of the abItst "agr0nO-
mes" France 1t has all the light Of the
latest improvements, not only Ia France,
but IN all Europe.
William Goblet, one Of he most sue
cessful farmers both 10 Eng land aud Amer.
lea, who wrote The best English style and
the best French grammar that evei was,
valued the MaiSun Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia of farning 2, but as meats
OF educating his children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
i his family resolved itselfinlo school, aid
he thus speaks the use then made Of this
work :-"Our book of never falling re-
source was the French Maison RUstique,
or Farm House, which. 1t is said, was he
book that first tempted Duenesnois q think
that was his name,) the famous physician
ia the reign of Louis XII, to learn 10
read. Here are all the our.ieg9rd ami
mails, from The horse down 10 lbe mouse,
portraits aud all; all The birds, fepults,
insects; all the modes OF rearing. nlanag:
ING, and using the tame ones, AID Of dt-
stroying those that are misc hievo Us; all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia
bors of the field and garden exhibited, aS
! we'll as the rest, ia plates; and there Was J.
in any leisure moments, to join this li.Gul>.
tive group, to read the French, aud tell
i them what it meaued in English, when
the picture did not suficl, nAy Rskpialn IL
self. | never have been wiI1ouis copy
ofthis book for fotty years, exeertd dung +
The time that was fleeing from The dun-s
geons of CastIereagh aud SIdmoU'h' \"
1917, and when got to Long Is 'ai d, lie
first book bought was another A!9iSon
Rus,ique. "--Adrice 10 Young Men, AL .
29l. -"=.=s
Ofthe qualifications of the trans ato''"
may be said that he is practical afmtf
and in regard 10 his translation Of La I On,
tame, which has been reprinted III hts'
land, an English reviewer confesseS tL0'
be 'does not know the English writer
who could have done il better"
TERMs.-The work will be pubHS,E,<
as srmi-mon,hly periodical. !" 4 '"'O v, d
5 OF Sc pages, octave, each % GEMS 'ns
, when complete will contain forty nUMOS'<' :.
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