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easy to recognize and class the different kinds of 

 milch cows, according to 



" 1st. The quantity of milk which they can yield 

 daily. 



" 2d. The period during which they will continue 

 to give milk. 



" 3d. The quality of their milk. 



" By means of these signs, which are all external 

 and apparent, he has established eight classes or 

 families, which embrace all the varieties of the 

 cow that are to be met with in the different parts of 

 this kingdom. Each of these classes or families is 

 subdivided into eight orders. It is divided, also, 

 into three sections, so that each of the sections com- 

 prehends the eight orders." 



What are the signs? In Guenon's words, they are 

 the marks w visible upon the posterior part of "every 

 cow, in the space embraced between the udder and 

 vulva. They consist of a kind of escutcheons of 

 various shapes and sizes, formed by the hair growing 

 in different directions, and bounded by lines where 

 these different growths of hair meet. The varieties 

 of these escutcheons mark the different classes and 

 orders of cows." 



The complete, enthusiastic acceptance accorded the 

 method of Guenon in France, while the author was 

 the presiding genius of his own idea, shows that it 

 has much value. Certain, however, it is, that in 

 England and in our own country the method has not 

 been accepted in all its original elaborateness ; and 

 there is a growing conviction that the author saw in 



