TREATISE C.N 3IILCH COWS. 



As to onrselves — for wiic>iis, as we haTe already informed yoa. Gentlemen, die methc-d was no long- 

 er a secret — it was wiih consianily renewing feelings of interest and astonishment that we fol- 

 lowed up these examiaanons and contemplated the accuracy of their results. Two members 

 particalariy of the Coiniiu~ee. wfcom their special pursuits and their physiological know^ledge of 

 damesac animaU entitle to great confidence, had, &om the very first examination, been struck 

 with the truth and stnensth of the system, the sacce^ol applications of which were moltiplying 

 uader onr eyes. This system. Gentlemen, we do not fear to say it, is infallible. The signs upon 

 which it is ibonded, ever constant, invariable in the place which they occupy, are strongly impress- 

 ed upon the animal by the hand of Nature. To appreciate them becomes an easy task ; all that 

 is requisite being, after bavin? examined the anfmal and ascertained what marks she bears, to ex- 

 amine the drawinss and fix upon the one in which those same marks appear. Then, by means 

 of a brief but precise explanatioa which refers to that drawing, the qnalities of the animal under 

 examination become known, and the class and order to which dbe naturally belongs are indicated. 

 It is bv p!T>ceeding thus — by examining, first, the marks upon the animal, and then seeking among 

 the drawings for the one in -which those marks were reproduced — that the members of your Com- 

 mittee, after witnessing the first experiment, have been able themselves to apply the system, and 

 to form judgments which wctb afterward corroborated in the same way that those of M. Gueiion 

 were. 



In the hight of onradmiratioa. Grentlemen. it was a subject of lively regret that the whole Soci- 

 ety were not present : but we have the consolarion of hoping that each of you will soon experi- 

 ence the pleasure \ihich we have enjoyed, and have it in his po-wer to apply this discovery to hia 

 own use and benefit. 31. Gueaoa is not disposed to keep it secret : he proposes, so soon as a list 

 of three thoasand sabscribers shall have been filled, to publish a work, in which his system, com- 

 pletely developed, shaii be placed in the strongest light. The distinctive sgns of each class and 

 each ordo' will be exacUy described, and accurately represented by engraved or lithographic 

 dra\\-ings ; and the quanlily of mUk which each description of Cow is capable of yielding will be 

 stated. 



Bv means of diia faithful snide, which is within the capacity of every understanding, errors 

 will be dispelled, and the ability to form correct judgments of Cows will become common to aU 

 classes o husbandmen. Before long, none but Cows and Bulls of the first order will be used to 

 breed from; this race of animals, which has become degenerate through bad crosses, wfll be ele- 

 vated : and. as in other sjjecies of domestic animals, individuals of pure blood wiU be readHy ob- 

 tainable. Then, guided by sure and positive knowledge respecting the future qualities of young 

 Cattle, we shall no longer rear, at great expense for three or four years, a Calf whose secretion of 

 milk can never be otherwise than small in quantity and poor in quality ; whfle, on the other hand, 

 we dial! no longer blindly consign to the butcher, young animals that would repay all the csre 

 that could be bestowed upon them. 



These consiileraiions wilL we feel persuaded. Gentlemen, determine you to encourage M. Goe- 

 Don to the publication and dissemination of a method which promises to be so useful to the agri- 

 cuhurist. How many poor families, in the neighborhood of large cities, where there is always a 

 great consumption of milk, find in a small number of Cows the means of their subsistence ! How 

 extensive a branch of trade is supported by the production of butter and cheese in many of oar 

 Pro'kinces — Brittany. Normandy, the Pj-renees. and others ! Holland and Switzerland, those cood- 

 iries of fine pasturc-s. ase they not indebted to this branch of husbandry for a prosperity wbich is 

 ever reproducing itsel£ and never wearing out — a prosperity less rapid, less brilliant perhaps, 

 than that which results from adventurous traffic, but safer at least for those who depend upon it ; 

 which is never deceptive ; which, more than any o'Jier, attaches man to his cotmtry, and favors 

 morality, and eeems dieUered from those political tempests which, in other lands, so often prostrate 

 the tailed fbrtnnes. 



[Sisned] GL'ICHEXET, V'eteriTnaj Prefegtor of Ou D^artme^ 



LECONTE. 

 F. PELISSIEE. 



A:\^T -l.-'t reading of this Report the Society decreed as follows : 

 Irt- Ti-it a 2-oId medal be awarded to M- Francis Guenon. 

 Sd. Ttiat lie be proclaimed a Member of this Society. 

 3d. That fifty copies of his work on Milch Cows be subscribed for. 



4th. That a thousand copies of the Report be printed for distribution among the AgncotanI 

 Socle tie<> of France. 



