SELECTION OF MILK COWS. 3'J3 



truth, to the extent which he claims. In some cases they have 

 proved true; in others not. "We believe there is, really, some- 

 thing in it, but our examinations have been more or less contra- 

 dictory. 



We give on the opposite page, an illustration from one of his 

 plates, showing a perfect escutcheon, developing, in the highest 

 degree the milk marks, by the escutcheon, of a largely producing 

 udder and its connections. It is a rear portrait of the cow 

 (plate 26) belonging to Mr. Chenery, as taken in February, 

 1867, although we are not aware that she possesses the escutch- 

 eon so thoroughly developed as is here illustrated. 



We have not considered it necessary to copy more of M. Gue- 

 non's diagrams, so intricately explained by him, as they would 

 lead the common inquirer to no satisfactory results. To those 

 who wish to go iuto a close investigation of the matter, we must 

 refer them to the treatise itself. 



As both Mr. Magne, and Mr. Haxton, have, with much par- 

 ticularity, gone into the practical workings of Guenon's theory, 

 and at too great lengths to insert in these pages, we give a careful 

 synopsis of the results of their investigations, both in France and 

 England. Of these, we first examine Mr. Magne : 



RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SCUTCHEONS AND THE FUNCTIONS 

 OF THE MILKY GLANDS. 



"The relations existing between the direction of the hair of 

 the perinaeum, and the activity of the milky glands, cannot be 

 disputed. Large lower ^tufts are marks of good cows, whereas 

 tufts near the vulva are observed on cows which dry up shortly 

 after they are again in calf. 



"But what is the cause of these relations? What connection 

 can there be between the hair of the perinaeum, and the functions 

 of the milky glands? 



"Having tried to answer this question in the 'Moniteur Agri- 

 cole,' for 1848, we will only say in this treatise, which is wholly 



