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the cUaracterislic signs of two classes, he who applies the method should 

 approximate them to the drawing of the classification from which they 

 differ the least, and fi*om that deduce the probable value. 



To render my work perfectly clear, I had to enter into the developments 

 veiy much in detail. Nevertheless, so extensive are these details that I 

 believe I have given neither too many nor too few, and have confined my- 

 self simply within the limits of the possible, the indispensible and the 

 useful. 



And now, whoever my opponents may be, I proclaim boldly and with- 

 out fear, that the escutcheon is the only incontestible characteristic sign 

 that can enable one to discern, by simple inspection, the aptitude for milk 

 production of each animal. 



All animals of the bovine species in good state of health, to which no 

 accident has happened, and whose escutcheons are of the first orders of each 

 class, will manifest always, and without exception, as much for the pro- 

 duction of milk as for generative ability. 



Beauty of form, to my thinking, represents but an ideal, and although 

 one ought to take it into consideration, it is a simple accessory without 

 value of its own, when the question is that of the production of milk. 



May I have been able to justify by this work the fruit of the experience 

 of my whole life, the honor done me by many agricultural societies in ad- 

 mitting me to their membership, and by the government which has shared 

 the expense of this new edition, with the two-fold purpose of encouraging 

 my efforts and facilitating the propagation of my method. 



