FOURTEENTH EDITION. 



NATIONAL TRIBUTE OP THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT 



TO 



M. GUENON, 



FOR HIS VALUABLE DISCOVERY WITH REGARD TO 



MILCH COWS. 



PENSION OF THREE THOUSAND FRANCS A YEAR TO THE AUTHOR. 



THE National Assembly s Committee on Agriculture have unanimously voted to confer 

 on M. GUENON a pension of three thousand francs a year, in consideration of his discovery 

 of an infallible method for determining the capacities of milch cows. This method is the 

 same as has become so generally known and appreciated throughout the United States, 

 through the medium of that excellent little work published by you containing a translation of 

 M. Guenon s treatise on the subject. 



The committee, in the report (which will soon be presented to the Assembly, and no doubt 

 adopted with unanimity), say that the method has been subjected to the most thorough tests, 

 and that no doubt can exist as to its infallibility ; by following the directions of M. Guenon, as 

 laid down in the treatise, any one can tell with certainty whether a cow is a good milker, or 

 whether a young heifer will become one, so that there need be no doubt as to the profit of rais 

 ing an animal, and no chance of being taken in in the purchase of one. By this means the 

 farmer may select among his young calves those that will give abundance of milk when they 

 are raised, and dispose of the rest at once for the shambles. No breeder of cattle need be 

 told of the immense advantages which such a guide confers. 



The committee say that a discovery of this nature, which adds so largely to the actual 

 worth of the country, is pre-eminently deserving of a national acknowledgment, and they ac 

 cordingly propose that the Republic confer upon M. GUENON the pension of three thousand 

 francs as a testimony of the estimation in which it holds his services as a public benefactor. 



Against such an appropriation of the public money there can be no objection. How much 

 mort rational it is that pensions and honors should be bestowed upon those who, by valuable 

 scientific discoveries, by improvements in agriculture and manufactures, render themselves 

 permanently useful to the world, than upon cheating politicians and successful soldiers. 



Yours respectfully, C. A. D. 



