Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-29
V o L. XIV. NO. 90
DRosPECTUs of the r,Rn NV.

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OF XIX CENTURY, or EacgcLoDed;a
OF practical Agriculture, contai,,;n6, 49,
best mode of culture adopted in Es,n Wv
England, Germany and Flandars. r,Ii
practical instructions 10 guide the small
cuitivator, the farmer, the director and
the large proprietor in the imnrors
ment OF an estate; the general princinle.
OF agriculture, and the culture of all the
useful plants; the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art; the de.
scription of the various arls relatino 10 an.
riculture rural implements and build.
lngs; the management and improvement
of vines, fruit trees, timber, ard forests
tanks, &c.; the economy, Organization
and direction ofarural establishment and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricul.
ure; closing with table of contents al.
phabeticalIy arranged list of 6guree.
authorizations, and authorities cited
An Elementary, Complete and Meth,
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Encfavincs,
representing the various Implements, Ma.
chimes. sets of Apparatus, Breeds of Ami
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised bv
committee of Scientific and PracticaI
Agriculturists, belonging to the Agyicuhu-
raj Society of France, under the direction
( of NJ, 4. 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 Untcd
States OF America, by EIizur Wright, Jr.,
formerly Professor Of Mathematics ard
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator Of La Fontaihe'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 sciencf IS are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adoTn it
with their moonshine. Consequ 10
man more thaE-the agriculturist needs tie
full use of his brains, and a perfect COM
uand of all toe treasures Of human eXTe-
}rience. Solhe farmers ofthe United States
view the matter; and in presenting iktm
with translation ofihe celebrated M9suu
Rustique Of the French, We have no doubt
:
all works upon practical agric uiture-ttt
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive
France has long eXcelltd in pqofi0Hs
farming. This is the source OF her wealth.
England is rich by c0as and commerce.
Her agriculture is splendid, but somelir,rs
costs more than 1t comes 10. These who
have fortunes 10 spend, may bay tie vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, ARTHUR
Young, Loudon, &c, but these who wish
to get fortune out Of the soil, will Gud
the French writers better abteto show them
the woy. The excellence of French tic-
mentary works is well known to all teach
ers, For centuries the Naison Rus,iquc
has been in France, the Standard tlrij.,Il-
airy workable spelling book AID grim
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 abesl "aggono-
mes" France. 1t has all the ligh! of tie
latest improvements, not only in France,
bot in all Europe
William Cobbeut, one Of the most Sue
cessful farmers 10th in Eng land aud 4 Gler-
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison Rustque, not only Us
an encyclopedia Of farming, but as n!eaAs
! OF educating has Children. He was MS
+ own schoolmaster. Ii wiuter evenings
Instantly resolved itself into school, aud
g ne thus speaks of The use then made cllhs
II work -" Our book Of never falling re-
!, source was the French Maison Rus,iQue,
a or Farm House, which, it is said, was The
] book that firsttempted Duguesnuis q think
y that was his name,) the famous physician
!. In the reign of Louis XII, to learn 10
: read. Here are all the ur-legged ami
! mails, from the horse down 10 the mouse,
J. portraits and all all the birds, reptiles,
u insects; all the modes OF rearing, manag
- ing, and using the tame ones, and of de-
e stroYlng those that are mischievous all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
= bors of the field and garden exhibited, as
le well as the rest, 10 plates; and there was i.
= IN any leisure moments, 10 join this iHqnis-
lel tive group, toread the French, and tell
re them what it meaned in English, when
IS the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
y self. never have been without copy
or OF this book for forty years, except duTirg
as The time that was fleeing from the dun
geons OF Casllereagh and Sidmovth, 10
e. 1917, and when got to Long Island, The
:, :. hfst book bought was another Maiion
+, Rus'lque. "--Adrice TO Young Men, A't
ne 291
en- OF the qualifications Of The translator, il
as may be said that he is practical farmer
M aud in regard to his translation of La Fen
taine, which has been reprinted in Eug
Al, land, an English reviewer confesses tina
Ii be "does not know the English wriel
raj who could have done it better"