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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



" From this fact, with which tlie commitlce was much struck, there results the consequence 

 that there is really a relation existing between the milking properties and the visible external 

 signs or escutcheons indicated. 



" The Committee consider as a vast service rendered to Agriculture, a discovery which has 

 taught us to distinguish good from bad milkers, and it is the greater as the system applies to 

 calves, and tlius enables us to discai-d, by handing over to the butcher, worthless heifers, that we 

 would otherwise be at the expense of rearing. 



" To make known as widely as possible this valuable discovery, the Committee recommend 

 the nomination of Mous. Guenon, as a coiTespouding member of tliis Society and the purchase of 

 25 copies of his work." 



Let us take the occasion to salute our patrons with " a happy new year." We are grateful for 

 their liberal encouragement, and if they are not as numerous as we could wish, they are quite as 

 much so as as we could have reasonably expected, and will make up in quality for want of num- 

 bers. Finally, we have every reason to be grateful for the past and confiding as to the future — 

 and all we have now to ask is, that those who think favorably will speak kindly of our labors to 

 advance the most important interest of the country. 



TREATISE 



ON 



MILCH COWS: 



WHEREBV 



THE DUALITY AND QUANTITY OF MILK WHICH ANY COW WILL GIVE 

 MAY BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, 



BY 

 OBSERVING NATURAL MARKS, OR EXTERNAL INDICATIONS ALONE ; 



THE LENGTH OF TIME SHE WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE MILK, 



&c. &c. 

 By M. FRANCIS GUENON, France. 



Translated from the French of the Author, for the Farmers' Library, 



By N. P. TRIST, late U. S. Consul at Havana. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by Greeley & McElkath, in the Clerk'a Office of 

 the District Court for the Southern DiBUict of New- York. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS; 



The Translator to the Reader. 



CHAPTER FIRST. 

 Account of the Discovery. 



CHAPTER SECOND. 



Of the different kinds of Cows. 



GENER.\L remarks: 



§ I. The Genuine Cow. 

 I II. The Bastard Cow. 



THE SEVERAL CLASSES OF COWS : 



CLASS 1. The Flanders Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 2. The Selvage Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 3. The Curveline Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this claiss. 



(600) 



CLASS 4. The Bicorn Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 5. The Demijohn Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 6. The Square-Scntcheon Cow. 



Genuine Cow of tliis class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 7. The Limousine Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 CLASS 8. The Horizontal Cut Cow. 



Genuine Cow of this class. 



Bastard Cow of this class. 

 On Bastard Bulls. 

 Table showing the yield of the several 

 orders of each class. 



