Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-01
THROsPECTUS Of the FARM HOUSE

PRACTICAL instructions TO guide the small
cultivator, the farmer, the director, and
the large proprietor in the improve.
ment OF an estate the general principles
of agriculture, and the culture of ali ths
useful plants the training OF domestic
animals, and the veterinary art; the de.
scriplion Of the various arts relating to 49,
rcuIture rural implements and build. .
inps; the management and improvement,
of vines, fruit trees, timber, ard forests.
tanks, &c.; the economy, organization
antdirection ola rural establishment; and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricuIt.
ure; closing with table of contents al
phabetically arranged list Of figures,
abbrevialions, and authorities cited.
An Elementary. Complete, and Meth.
odicaI Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Enoravjngs,
representing the various Implements, Ma.
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Breeds Of Ami.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested ard revised by
committee of Scientific and Practical
! Agricuturists. belonging 10 the A ericuItu,
raj Society of France, under the direction
Of M. T.. Bailey, Member of the Societies
of Agriculture and Hortcui,ure. Trans
lated from the French, with Notes ada Pr
ing it TO the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by EFizur Wrie ht, Jr.,
( formerly Professor of Mathematics and
| Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
lserye College, Translator Of La Fontaine's
/ Fables, &c.
/ Agriculture is the foundation of all hu.
Imam arts-.-ths art for which man was
made. and the perfection Of which is his
chief happiness and glory as the lord tenn
Iporal OF this planet Ofthis sublime art,
all other arts and scIencfs are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn il
with their moonshine. Consequently, to
man more than the agrleuIturist needs the
full use of his brains, and a perfect CON-
mand Of all toe treasures Of human eXpe-
rence. Snthe farmers otlhe United States
view the matter; and in presenting Them
with a translation oft The celebrated Mai>OA
Rustique of The French, we have no doubt
, of their hearty support. Ii is the work Of
all works upon practical agric ulture--the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive
| France has lCng excel|cd in Paoftatis
, farming. This is the source OF her wealth.
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, but these who wish
j to get fortune out of the soil, will fEd
: the French writer's better able to showtEcm
the way. The excellence of French ce.
!, mentary works is well known to all teach
! ers. For centuries the Maison Rnstqae
It has been in France, the standard element
! ary work-the spelling book and 9rom,
3 mar Of farming. The present edition tor
.'the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the ''march
c of mind" by sixty Of the abIesl j" agrone-
!, 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.
cessfulfarmers both 10 Enga and Amer
: lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was,
:. valued the Maison Rust;que, not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, bul as means
/ OF educating has children. He was his
- own schoomaster. liz winter evenings
>. his family resolved it>elfinto school, aud
10 he thus speaks ofihe use then made otlhls
oi work -" Our book of never failing re.
E, source was the French Maison Rustique
: or Farm House, which, il is said, was The
" book that firsttempted Dueuesnois q tbmb
y that was his name.) the famous physical
a. Ia the reign of Louis Kill, 10 learn Il
- read. Here are all the iour.Iegged AMI
a. mails, from the horse down 10 The mouse
$, portraits and all all the birds, REPTILES
OF insects; all the modes OF rearing, manag
= ing, and osing the tame ones, and of de
re stroylng those that are mischievcus; al
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
c. bors OF the field and garden exhibited, al
ne well as the rest, Ia plates; and there was |
ns 10 any leisure momenls, 10 Join this inquis
he tive group, 10 read the French, aud tel
re them what 1t meaned 10 English, whtI
sts the plcture-did not Sufficiently expIuiu it
y sell. never have been without ccp,
or oithIs book for forty years, excep, durn:
as The time that | was fleeing from the dun
geons OF Castlereagh aud SIdmoulh, !
re- 1917, and when got to Long Island, tt
est first book bought was another Nlaiso
ns Ruslique. '--Adcice 10 Young Men, A.
me- 29l.
en OF the qualifications Of the translator,
has may be said that he is practical farme
n and in regard to his translation of La For
- tame, which has been reprinted in EOG
rail- land, an English reviewer confesses th;
RITZ he does not know the English write
'rai VINO could have done it better"
m. IERMs.-The work will be pubIishe
ion as a semi monthly periodical, 10 numbe
ing OF DO pages, octave, each Is cents, er
'py when complete viii contain forty number
IN at SO.
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