Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-02-22
DROsPECTUs of the FARM HONS,

I OF PfGct2ClG agriculture, containing the
best mode of culture adopted in France
England, Germany and Flanders; full
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.
scription of the various arts relating to 40.
riculture; rural implements and build.
lngs; the management and improvement
OF vines, fruit trees, timber, ard forests,
tanks, &C.; the economy, organization
and direction ola rural establishment and
finally, Legislation as applied to agricult.
lure; closing with table of contents al.
phabetically arranged; list Of figures,
authorizations, and authorities cited.
An Elementary, Complete, and Meth.
odical Course Of Rural Economy, with
more than Two thousand Engravings
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 to the Agricultu,
raj Society of France, under the direction
of NJ. L. 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 United
States Of America, by Elizur Wrig ht, Jr.,
formerly Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in The Western Re-
serve College, Translator of La Fontaine's
Fables, &c. .-..@. ..
Agriculture is the foundation of all hu-
| made. and the perfection of which is his
chief happiness and glory as the lord tenn
poraI of this planet Ofthis sublime ART
all other arts and sciences are but satellites,
their business being to wait on, and adorn it
with their moonshine. Consequently, no
| man more thar the agriculturst needs the
| full use of his brains, and perfect con.-
nand Of all tnet.easures of human expe-
rience. Sothe farmers ofthe United Skles
view the matter; and in presenting them
with translation Of the celebrated Ma isou
Rustique ofthe French, we have no doubt
of their hearty support. 1t is The work Of
all works upon practical agric uIture-the
most scientific, clear, and comprehensive,
France has long exceled in p7oEtabIs
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 vas!
works of Marshall, Dickson, Arthur
l Young, Loudon, &c =, but these W no wish
to get fortune out of the soil, will fnd
the French writer's better ableto sbowthem
the way. The excellence of French Gle.
mentary works is well known to all teach
ers. For centuries the Maison Rustq9e
has been in France, the standard element.
airy work-lhe spelling book ard sram-
mar Of farming. The present edition for
1.-THE nineteenth century," has been re.
written and brought up with the - march
Of mind,' by sixty of the ablest "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.
cesstul farmers both 10 ngIand and Amer.
lea, who wrote the best English style and
the best French grammar that ever was,
: valued the Maisen Rustique not only as
an encyclopedia of farming, but as n'eohs
of educating has children. He was his
own schoolmaster. In winter evenings
his family resolved itselfinto school, aud
: he thus speaks of the use then made oft5j
+ work -" Our book of never falling re-
source was the French Maison RustiQue.
! or Farm House, which, ii is said, was lbe
! book that first tempted Dugnesnuis q think
J that was his name the famous physician
. in the reign of Louis XII, TO learn TO
J, read. Here are all the tour-Iegged 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 stroying those that are mischieyous all
the various traps, springs, nets; all the la
= bors OF the field and garden exhibited, as
e well as the rest, Ia plates; and there was l.
s IN any leisure moments, to join this iuquiS
Ie tive group, to read the French, and tell
re them what it meaned in English, when
is the picture did not sufficiently explain it.
, self. never have been without a COPY
Or OF this book for forty years, excep, during
as The time that was fleeing from the dun
geons OF Castlereagh and Sidmou,h, !,
= 1917, and when | got to Long Island, tn
. hrst book bought was another Maiso
r Rusllque. "--Adoice TO Young Men, Al
lie 29l.
N OF the qualifications of the translator,
q : may be said that he is practical farmer
m and IN regard to his translation of La Fon
tame, which has been reprinted in Eng
Il, land, an English reviewer confesses tba
i, i, he /" does not know the English write
al who could have done it better"
TFpMc L.