How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically appliedHazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
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How to Select Cows: or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope)
Cattle -- Judging; Cows; Dairy cattle
It will thus be seen, Guenon divided his bulls into three classes: The
good, the mediocre, and the bad. He also divided them into three sizes:
The high, the medium, and the low. But he makes no difference between the
three sizes of bulls in his description of the escutcheon. He describes
each one of the three principal orders, leaving to the practitioner to
determine the intermediate degrees between the good and the mediocre, and
between the mediocre and the bad.
We do not repeat his descriptions, as they are based upon those of the
cows of the same classes, and the engravings tell the whole story. We
reproduce the engravings of the good and mediocre. But very occasionally
is one of the “rare” ones observed, but he says the Curved-line is the
most usual, then the Limousine, and lastly the Horizontal. What we
give is quite sufficient for all practical purposes. We advise all to
carefully select their breeding animal, which will, in most cases, be
from among what he calls the “mediocre.”
[Illustration: _Class I.—Flanders Bull._]
[Illustration: _Class II.—Left Flanders Bull._]
[Illustration: _Class III.—Selvage Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class IV.—Curveline Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class V.—Bicorn Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class VI.—Double Selvage Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class VII.—Demijohn Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class VIII.—Square Bulls._]
[Illustration: _Class IX.—Limousine Bulls._]
REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GUENON COMMISSION.
At the annual meeting of the Board held January 2, 1878, it was
“_Resolved_, That the president of the Board (His Excellency Governor
John F. Hartranft) be authorized and requested to appoint a commission of
experts, who shall inquire into and report upon the reliability of the
Guenon or escutcheon theory for selecting milking stock; said report to
be made to the secretary of the Board on or before the 1st of November
next.”
In accordance with this request, His Excellency Governor Hartranft issued
the following commission:
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, HARRISBURG, _April 24, 1878_.
To GEORGE BLIGHT, Esq., _of the city of Philadelphia_; CHALKLEY
HARVEY, Esq., _of the county of Delaware_, and WILLIS P.
HAZARD, Esq., _of the county of Chester_:
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to inform you that you have been
duly appointed a committee by the State Board of Agriculture to
investigate and test “The Guenon Milk Escutcheon Theory,” and
report the result thereof to the secretary of said Board.
JNO. F. HARTRANFT,
_Governor and President of the Board_.
_November 1, 1878._
To the Honorable JNO. F. HARTRANFT,
_Governor and President of the Board of Agriculture_:
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