~*^ 



TREATISE. 



(. ON 



Mixc H cows; 



" ; ' WHEREBY 



TBE Quality AND auANTiTY of milk which any cow will sive 



MAY BE ACCUBATELY DETEfiMINEDf: 



OBSERVING NATURAL MARKS, OR EXl-ERNAL INDICATIONS ALONE; ' 



THE LENGTH OF TIME SHE \VtLL CONTINtffi td'/aivfi^' MILK, 



. 45C. &c., . . - t • 



Bt M. FRANCIS aUENQN, France. y. .. .. 



Translated from tho French of the Author, for the FarmerB* Library, 



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



THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER. 



Nonsense ! Who can believe any such thuig ? What ! by merely looking at a 

 cow, to be able to tell how much milk she is capable of being made to yield ; 

 and, also, how long she can continue to give milk after teing got with calf! — 

 to be able tlius to ascertain, not otily what are the qualities of a full grown cow, 

 but what are lo be the qualities of any heifer-calf, by looking at her while yet 

 but two or three months old ! Surely, if ever there was a humbug, this is one. 



Softly, Mr. Reader ! You are very incredulous, no doubt, but I defy you to be 

 more so than I was when in your present position. What is more, I defy you 

 to cling to your skepticism over an hour or so. However strong and firm it may 

 be at this moment, it will, in a hnle while, have vanished into nothing ; and its 

 place will be filled by another solid proof in addition to the many you must al- 

 ready have stored up, that 



" I'hei'C are more things in heaven and earth , 



l^an arc dreamt of m your philosophy." 



When this discovery was first mentioned to me, as one whicli had recently 

 been published in France* I smiled at the credulity of some people. My informant, 

 perceiving what effect the announcement had upon me, said, " It is so, however ;" 

 and then, nothing but politeness toward a stranger, for the first time under my 

 roof, prevented my replying, " You do not really believe this to be possible." 



He offered to send me the book ; and, though I had not the least idea of 

 throwing away my time in reading it, civility would not allow me to decline. 

 It came, and I opened it with the intention merely of looking into it sufficiently 

 to say that I had done so. When, however, in turning the pages over, I saw 

 that this piece of quackery, as I felt very sure the pretended discovery must be, 

 had engaged the attention of distinguished Agricultural Societies in France, and 



