NEW WORK ON PRACTICAL FARMING, 



D. Applcton ^ Co, have recently Pvhlishtd 



RURAL ECONOMY; 



lr» ITS RELATION WITH 



CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS. AND METEOHOLOGY: OR, CHEMISTRY 

 APPLIED TO AGIUUULTUKE. 



BY J. B. BOUISSANGAULT, 



Memher of the Institute of France, etc. 

 TRANSL\TED WITH AN INTRODUt^TiON AND NOTES. BY 

 GEORGE LAW, AGRICULTURIST. 

 One handsome volume, \-2mo. of 500 pages. Price $1 50. 

 Heads OF Chapters.— I. Phvsical Phenomena of Veketation— Veoetabi.i 

 PnvsioLOGY.^ II. Of the Chemical Constitution of Vegetable Substancei. 

 III. Of the Saccharine Fruits, Juices, and Infusions used in the Preparation 

 nf FiRMENTKD and Spiritious Liquors. IV, Of Soils. V. Of Manures. VI. 

 Of iMi.neral Manurks or Stimulants. VII Of the Rotation of Crops. VIII. 

 Of the Feeding of the Antmals helonging to a Farm and of the Immediate Prin- 

 ciples of Antmal Origin. IX. Of the Economy of the Animals attached to a Farm. 

 Of Stock in general, and its Relation with the Production of Manure— Mjeteob- 

 dlogical Considerations. 



Extract from Translator's Introduction. 



In the person of the distinn;uished author of this work the man of scrence is happily 

 associated with the practical farmer — the accomplished naturalist, the profound che- 

 mist and natural philos pher, and friend and fellow-lahorer of Arago, Biol, Diimas, and 

 all the leading minds of his age and country — M Bouissangault's t'itle to consideration 

 is recognised wherever letters and civilization have extended their influence. 



Surely, the collected and carefully recorded experience of such a man must tiave 

 value in the estimation of every educated mind, and cannot fail to be especially wel- 

 come to that class of readers who are professionally engaged in the practical appli- 

 cation of that noble science which his labors have contributed to illustrate and 

 advance. 



The chemical portion ot this work is of inestimable value, and conducted with 

 consummate skill and knowledge ; and with a minuteness and accuracy perfectly un- 

 exampled. At the same time the results of the writer's researches, as well as the 

 means and processes by which these results were ol)tained, are displayed with such 

 absolute perspicuity as to be intelligii>le and instructive to every agricultural inquirer, 

 however superficial his previous acquaintance may be with the details of chemical 

 science. Nothing from the pen of the eriitor could throw additional light upon the 

 author's most interesting elucidation of vegetable physiology ; his exposition is at 

 once masterly and complete, and contains much that is both valualile and new. 

 Every intelligent farmer will find his account not merely in a repeated perusal of this 

 portion of the wnrk, i)Ut in regarding it as a text-book and manual to be kept by him 

 for permanent reference and consultation 



On the subject of soils the distinguished author is so thoroughly explanatory and 

 judicious that nothing is left for the editor but to approve and recommend. The 

 su!>ject of Manures is taken up, and discussed with characteristic minuteness through 

 many succeeding pages. 



To the author's sixth chapter the reader may he advantageously referred, ns con- 

 taining a very full and valuable description and discussion, under the head of Mineral 

 Manures, of the different varieties of the class usually denominated stimulants, and 

 concluding with a brief but lucid and interesting account of water, considered as an 

 agent of vegetation, and of its importance for manuring purposes. The composition 

 and preparation of liquid manures, as well as the various means of procuring and pre- 

 serving them, will be found to have engaged much of the author's attention. 



The Editor is anxious to direct esprcial attention to the author's seventh chapter, 

 wherein he treats of the organic and inorganic manures, and of crops — of tlie ele- 

 ments of manures and of crops, with their relations inter se, ^c— a section of the work 

 which prtsents, in synopsis, a more copious and complete body of new, interesting 

 and important f^icts, of a nature more valuable to the practical fanner than has ever 

 been collected in any previous treatise on agricultuml science. 



The interesting and nmple instruction conveyed in tiie observations of this pro 

 found observer upon the food and alimentary treatment of cnitle of every uprrics. 

 accompanied as they are by minute It-tails of the results obtained in the sliape ol 

 organic and inorganic elements, cannot be too urgently reconnnended to the attentive 

 consideration of every one interested in that important branch of rural economy to 

 which they more particularly relate. 



The meteorological section of the volume will be found no IcM instructifo to th« 

 tgriculturist thun fascinating to the general reader 



