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
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_No. 6._—LUCY. |_No. 6._—LUCY.—Flanders, fourth.
Quantity, thirteen quarts. | Quantity, fourteen quarts.
Quality, a less number of | Quality, good, very.
pounds will make a pound of |
butter than most of my other |
cows; think her milk extra |
good. |
Dry some two months. | Dry three months.
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_No. 7._—BERNICE. |_No. 7._—BERNICE.—Flanders, second.
Quantity, when fresh, about | Quantity, twelve quarts.
twelve quarts. |
Quality, never tried her | Quality, good.
butter production. |
Goes dry some three months, and| Time, eight months out of twelve.
has the credit of being the |
poorest cow in the herd. |
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_No. 8._—JOSEPHINE 2d.—First |_No. 8._—JOSEPHINE 2d.—Curveline,
calf. | third.
Quantity, first calf, eleven | Quantity, ten to twelve quarts.
quarts. |
Quality, never weighed her milk| Quality, rich.
or tried her butter |
production. |
Cannot tell how long she will | Goes to two months of her time.
go dry. |
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_No. 9._—JUDITH. |_No. 9._—JUDITH.—Flanders, first.
Quantity, seventeen quarts. | Quantity, eighteen quarts.
Quality, on a trial after her | Quality, good.
first calf was taken away, |
made 2 ounces less than 8 |
pounds of butter, done up in |
lumps for market. |
Goes dry six or seven weeks. | Well up to her time (one month or
| six weeks.)
“Having been present at the examination of my herd of
Short-Horns, by the State Guenon Commission, May 31, 1878, I
certify this report is a correct copy of the original records
made on the spot, and at separate times; neither party having
knowledge of the other’s accounts.
WILLIAM M. LARGE.”
CHESTNUT GROVE, _7th month, 3d, 1878_.
Report of the Examination of the Stock of Eastburn Reeder, of Rabbit Run
Stock Farm, New Hope, Bucks County, Pa.
The commission visited the farm of Eastburn Reeder on Saturday, June 1,
and examined his stock of Jersey and Guernsey breeds in presence of the
proprietor and a number of members of the Solebury Farmers’ Club. Mr.
Reeder’s account of his herd had been drawn up and placed in the hands of
J. S. Williams, Esquire, secretary of the Solebury Farmers’ Club, some
ten days before the visit of the commission, and is printed herewith.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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