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V OIL. XIV. NO. as
UDRosPECTUs of the ,.nx 49,.

| q PT0ettcdt Agriculture, CONTAINING The
pest MODE OF culture adopted in Fame
England, Germany and Flanders. fn!i
practical instructions TO guide the small
cultlvator, The farmer, the director .nd
the large proprietor in the imaroye-
Iment oil an estate; the general princinles
OF agriculture, and the culture of all tho
use'ul plants; the training of domestic
animals and the veterinary art; the de-
scrlplon OF the various arts relating TO 40.
tlculture rural implements and build.
lngs; the management and improvement,
( OIL vines, fruit trees, timber, ard forests
tanks, &C.; the economy, Organization
and direction ola rural establishment; and
finally, Legislation as applied to aericuh.
ure; closing with table of contents al.
phabetically arranged; list of figures.
abbrevlatlons, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odlcal Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Eneravines,
representing the various implements, Ma
chimes, sets of Apparatus, Breeds of Ami.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants, Rura!
Buildings, etc. Digssted aud revised by
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, belonging TO the AgricuIlu-
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 ADAPT
ing it 10 the use of farmers in the United
States OF America, by Etizur Wright, Jr.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics ami
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La Fontaine's
Fables, &c. 49,.
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 sciencfs are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn il
with their moonshine. Consequently, 10
man more than the agricu,urisl needs tie
full use of his brains, and perfect COM
mand of all toe treasures Of human cxre-
rience. Snthe farmers ofhe United Safes
view the matter; and in presenting item
with translation oflhe celebrated Nelson
RuStique of the French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support. 1t is the work Of
all wor Ks upon practical gric ulture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long excelied in p70ftobIc
farming. This is the source finer 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, &c, but those who wish
to get fortune out Of the soil, will frd
the French writers better able to showthem
the way. The excellence of French cc-
mentary works is well known 10 al teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Ru>tIquc
has been IN France, the standard element,
airy work-ihe spelling book aud n5aaa.
mar of farming. The present edition for
1.-The nineteenth century," has been rr-
written and brought up with the "march
Of mind" by sixty of the ab!est "agrono-
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.
cessfu farmers both in England and Amer,
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison Rustique, not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, but as a means
OF educating lis children. He was MS
| own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itselfinlo school, aud
ne thus speaks of the use then made otlhis
work =" Our book of never falling re-
source was the French Maison Rustiquc,
or Farm House, which, it is said, was the
book that firsttempted Dugnesnois q think
that was his nancy the famous physician
In the reign of Louis XII, 10 learn 10
read. Here are all the four. legged ami
mails, from the horse down 10 the mouse,
portraits and all all the birds, reptiles,
insects; all the modes OF rearing, manags
ing, and using the tame ones, and of de-
stroylng those that are mischievous all
the various traps, springs, nets all the la
bors otthe field and garden exhibited, as
we'll as the rest, Ia plates; and there was /,
10 any leisure moments, 10 Join this inqu!s-
tive group, TO read the French, and tell
them what it meaned in English, when
the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
self. never have been without copy
OF this book for forty years, except during
The time that was fleeing from the dun
geons of Castlereagh and Sdmoulb, ia
1917, and when got to Long Island, The
first book bought was another Aiaison
Rus,ique. "--Adrice 10 Young Hen, AT
! 2o1.
Ofthe qualifications of the translator it
may be said that he is practical farmer
and in regard TO histransation of La Fon,
tainc, which has been reprinted in Eng
land, an English reviewer confesses that
he does not know the English writer
who could have done ii better"