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
First-class. | Quality, second.
Dry two to three weeks. | Up to her time.
We were present at the examination of our stock by the
Pennsylvania Guenon Commission, on October 2d, and have
examined the accounts here rendered, with the original written
opinions, and find them to correspond. The accounts were given
by both parties without either knowing anything of the accounts
of the other.
(Signed) J. & J. DARLINGTON.
Having given the results of their work, the commission would now leave
the further solution of the problem to the practical dairymen of the
State. They, of course, expect that not only their report, but also the
correctness of the system, will be criticised; but if this criticism is
conducted with a spirit of fairness, and with a view to obtain the truth,
they fully believe the result will be favorable.
By direction of the commission.
WILLIS P. HAZARD,
_Secretary_.
ADDENDA.
The appointment of a commission by Governor Hartranft, in 1878, to
investigate and verify the theories of M. Guenon in judging and selecting
milch cows, has resulted in much good to the agricultural community. The
members of that commission, including Mr. George Blight, who acted upon
a similar committee in 1853, thoroughly imbued with the accuracy of the
system and the desire to extend its usefulness, have continued to explain
this mode of selecting cows whenever an opportunity offered. This has
been very frequent, and many hundred cows have been examined in public,
and the system explained in every section of the country.
It is fortunate that all other modes of judging cows do not militate
against M. Guenon’s views; they give the judge only a more certain mode,
and, if he has had much practice, a nearly infallible one. There are some
points which are in full unison with Guenon’s views, but do not appear in
his work, and may be spoken of as follows:
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