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FRANCIS GUENON.


HOW TO SELECT COWS;
OR
THE GUENON SYSTEM
SIMPLIFIED, EXPLAINED, AND PRACTICALLY APPLIED.

BY
WILLIS P. HAZARD,
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission; President of the Chad’s FordFarmers’ Club; a Vice-President of the American Dairyman’s Association;Lecturer upon Agriculture at the Delaware State College, &c.,&c.; Author of Treatises “On the Jersey, Guernsey, andAlderney Cow,” and “On Butter and Butter-making;”“The Annals of Philadelphia,” &c.

WITH NEARLY 100 ILLUSTRATIONS
Photographed from Guenon’s engravings.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. M. STODDART & CO., 1018 Chestnut Street.
1882

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Copyrighted
According to Act of Congress

1879.


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PREFACE.

The want has long been felt for a hand book which would simplify andexplain the invaluable discovery of Guenon, to enable any one to selectgood stock. There can be no doubt if this discovery is made to be easilyacquired, that millions of dollars would be saved to the community by theimprovement of herds and a consequent reduction in the price of bovineproducts, on account of the increased yield and the lower cost of raising it.

The State of Pennsylvania, in 1878, appointed a commission to test thesystem and report upon it. As a member of that commission, we foundthere was with many a superficial knowledge of the subject, with othersenough acquaintance with the system to destroy their faith in it, and withnearly all a desire to obtain sufficient practical knowledge of the systemto enable them to judge understandingly and to practice it.

With a view to fill these wants, we have undertaken the explanation ofthe system in the following pages to enable all to fill up their measure ofknowledge of the system, so that the superficial shall become thorough,the doubting acquire new faith, and all see its merits the more they practiceand apply it.

We have accordingly given a sketch of M. Guenon and the progress ofhis discovery; some extracts from his preface explaining his views; anexplanation of his system of escutcheon marks; a description of the variousescutcheons and their indications of value and quantity, and directionshow to practically apply them, together with the report of the PennsylvaniaGuenon Commission.

Believing that we have thus presented a comprehensive view of this discovery,we trust every one into whose hands this work may come, willpatiently, book in hand, go into the farm-yard and judge of the value ofhis stock by the rules here set forth, compare the results with his individualknowledge of his stock, and fairly estimate the value of the system.

The illustrations of the escutcheons are photographed from Guenon’sdrawings in his last revised edition.

WILLIS P. HAZARD.

Maple Knoll, West Chester, Pa., September, 1879.


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