Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-02-08
WDRosPECTUs Of the FARM Hou $,

best mode Of culture adopted in France
England. Germany and Flanders: fu,
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 all The
useful plants; the training of domestic
animals, and the veterinary art the de.
scrlption of the various arts relating TO ag.
riculture rural implements and build.
ings; the management and improvement!
of vines. fruit trees, timber, ard jores:s,
tanks, &C.; the economy, organization
and direction ola rural establishment and
| finally, Legislation as applied TO agricuIs
ure; closing with table of contents al.
phatbetically arranged; list OF figures
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete. and Meth.
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two Thousand Engravngs,
representing the various implements, Ma.
chimes, sets OF Apparatus, Breeds of Ami.
mails, Trees, Shrubs aud Plants. Rural
Buildings, etc. Digested and revised BY
committee of Scientific and Practical
Agriculturists, belonging tolhe Agriculru.
raj Society of France, under the direction
of Nj. II. Bailey. Member OF the Societies
of Agriculture and Horticulture. Trans.
lated from the French, with Notes adapt.
ing it to the use of farmers 10 the United
States OF America, by Eiizur Wright, Jr.,
! formerly Professor Of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in he W,stern Re-
serve College, Translator OF La Fonlaine'S
Fables, sc. "
Agriculture is the foundation of all hu.
man arls---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 p an:t OF this sublime AT,
all other arts and sciencs IS are but s,aleIi'rs
their business being TO wait Oh, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
man more than the agricuIturist needs The
full use OF his brains, and perfect ccm.
:. mand of all tue treasures Of human eXre.
rlence. Solhe farmers oflbe United Stats
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation ofthe celebrated Ma i<on
Rusique of The French, we have no doubt
OF their hearty support. Ii is he work Of
all works upon practical agric uiluIe-tbe
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive.
France has long exceled In profitable
! farming. This IS the source OF her wealth.
England is rich by Goals and commerce.
Her agriculture is Ilendid, butsomelin.es
costs more than 1t comes TO. THOSE " no
have fortunes to spend, may buy the vast
works of Marshall, Dickson, Anhut
Young, Loudou, &c but those who WISH
to get a fortune out Of The soil, will frd
the French writers better able to show them
the way. The excellence Of French lie.
mentary works is well known to q II teach.
ers For centuries the Maison Rustqpe
has been in France, the standard element.
airy work-the spelling book and Gram.
mar Of farming. The present edition loe
"the nineteenth century," has been re-
written and brought up with the "march
OF mind" by sixty Of the abIest "agron0.
mes" France. 1t has all the light of The
latest improvements, not only in France,
but in all Europe ,."-
/ William Goblet, one of HE most sue.
cessful farmers both 10 England and Amer
lea, who wrote the best English style aud
the best French grammar that ever was,
valued the Maison Rustique, not ouIy as
an encyclopedia of farming, bu' asa means
oil educating has CHILDREN He WIS his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his famtiy resolved itseifinto school, and
he thus speaks ofthe use then made Il IBIS
work =" Our book of never failing re.
source was the French Maison Rustique,
or Farm House, which, il is said, was he
oook that 1rsttempted Dugnesnuis Il think
that was his nancy the famous physician
10 the reign of Louis XII, 10 learn 10
read. Here are all the four-Iegotd AMI.
mails, from The horse down 10 the mouse,
portraits and all; all the birds, rcrtlits,
insects; all the modes OF rearing, napagj
ing, and using the tame ones, and of de.
stroying those that are mischievcus; all
J the various traps, springs, nets; all the Ia.
oors OF the field and garden exh biteh, as
well as the rest, 10 plates; ard there was |,
, 10 any leisure moments, TO join this il gus
) tive group, TO read the French, and tel
Them what 1t meaned in English, wien
the picture did not Sufficiently exriaiu il.
, sell. | never have been without COPY
OF this book for forty wears. except duri' 9
: The time that was fleeing from the don.
eeons OF Casllereagh aud Sldmou,h, in
1917, and when got to Long lsland. The
: hrst book bought was another Nlaison
Ruslique. "--Adcice TO Young Men, A7L
29I.
OF the qualifications Of the Translator, il
may be SAID that he is practical farmer
! and in regard to his translation OIL Fon.
tame, which has been reprinted in Egg
land, an English reviewer confesses ltat
: ne" does not know the Enel ish writer
who could have done il better"
TERMS-Tha ,,orl. ;u Ill, Lfi