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Finally, upon the Anglo-Flemish cow there appeared a notable difference between the rather 

 precipitate estimate of Mr. Guenont who calculated her yield, at fifteen pint^, and her known 

 yield, which was twenty-two pints; but this mistake had been corrected beforehand, by one 

 of our most intelligent colleagues — M. Collot — who has been applying Mr. Guenon's theory 

 for several years past, and who had at first sight estimated the yield of the Anglo-Flemish 

 cow at twenty pints, a near approximation to the truth. So that we may say in this case, 

 that Mr. Guenon, and not his method, was at fault. 



'On most of the animals inspected, Mr. Guenon pointed out to the audience the revealing 

 signs upon which his system is founded, and referring to the piinted treatise before us, showed 

 the relation of the principle to the results. He took care only (in view of the excess of feed 

 given to cows in the Paris dairy) to add a certain amount to the normal valuation given in his 

 book ; for the treatise of Mr. Guenon supposes the cows placed in ordinary circumstances on 

 proper pasture. 



As to the length of time that cows continue to give milk afler going to the bull, M. Gue- 

 non's replies were, with a single exception, in conformity with the facts and his estimates of 

 the butyraceous qualities of the milk were equally correct. 



The results were altogether conclusive: they confirmed those already obtained in the 

 presence of several agricultural societies, and particularly that were published after 348 trials, 

 twenty months ago, by the Central Agricultural Society of the Lower Seine, whose president 

 M. Demoy — has a seat in this congress, and made one of your committee. 



Several of your colleagues, and the reporter among them, has studied with more or less 

 care the printed treatise, and acknowledged its general correctness; and one of them — M. 

 Deffez (of Nerac) — who, under more favorable circumstances, and with the guidance of the 

 author himself, had been enabled to study the theory practically, with stables and cattle fairs 

 of the south, gave his estimate of the cows presented for trial, and these estimates, invariably 

 in accordance with those of Mr. Guenon, proved the almost mathematical exactness of the 

 principles upon which this singular and valuable system is based. 



It is known that it is founded on the arrangement or disposition of the hair, in a space com- 

 mencing at the upper extremity of the vulva, and descending to the roots of the teats, wind- 

 ing as it descends, covering the inner and hind parts of the thighs. Jt is from the arrangement 

 of the hair in this space that the deductions are drawn as to the quantity, duration, and 

 quality of the milk. 



What are the mysterious relations existing between these external characters and the milk- 

 producing organs 1 The author endeavors to explain, but his explanations only serve to jus- 

 tify the appeals that you have made on this body to the investigations of science. 



The result would seem to be, from what precedes, that the application of Guenon's sys- 

 tem can be made everywhere with the greatest facility, after reading his book ; bui it is due 

 to truth to say that this is not the fact ; that considerable difficulties are in the way of those 

 who wish to turn it to account, and that some sagacity and perseverance are necessary to 

 master it completely. 



An honorable member who has your entire confidence, assures us that in his department 

 where the system is generally applied, the number of bad milkers is diminishing in a striking 

 manner, and that at the expense of surrounding departments, where their owners are compelled 

 to seek less enlightened purchasers; and our president himself — the duke of Decazes — has 

 slated that Guenon's method was being adopted with signal benefit in the southwest. 



Admitted by our most learned veterinaries of the Royal College of Alfort and elsewhere, 

 encouraged by the government, confirmed by a thousand proofs, and sanctioned by your ap- 

 proval, the discovery of Mr. Guenon may now be considered as having reached the dignity of 

 a science. Tt applies alike to males and females — to calves and full-grown animals; and 



