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FOURTEENTH EDITION 



NATIONAL TRIBUTE OF THK FRENCH GOVERNMENT 



TO 



M. GUENON, ■ 



FOK HIS VALUABLE DISCOVERY WITH REGARD TO 



MILCH COWS. 



PENSION OF THREE THOUSAND FRANCS A YEAR TO THE AUTHOR. 



The National Assembly's Committee on AgricuUure have nnanimously voted to confer 

 on M. GruEiroir a pension of three thousand francs a year, in consideration of his discovery 

 of an infallible method ibr determining the capacities of milch covrs. This, method is the 

 same as has become so generally known and appreciated throughout the United States, 

 through the medium of that excellent little work published by you containing a. translation of ] 

 M> Guenon's treatise on the subject. 



The committee, in the report (which will soon be presented to the Assembly, and no doubt 

 adopted with unanimity), say that the method has been su&jected to the most thorough tests, 

 and that no doubt can exist as to its infallibility ; by following the directions of M. Guenon, as 

 laid down in the treatise, any one can tell with certainty whether a cow is a good milker, or 

 whether a young heifer will become one, so that there need be no doubt as to the profit of rais- 

 ing an animal, and no chance of being taken in in the purchase of one. By this means the 

 farmer may select among his young calves those that will give abundance of milk when they , 

 are raised, and dispose of the rest at once for the shambles. No breeder of cattle need be [ 

 told of the immense advantages which such a guide confers. i 



I The committee say that a discovery of this nature, which adds so largely to the actual 

 ( worth of the country, is pre-eminently deserving of a national acknowledgment, and they ac- 

 / cordingly propose that the Republic confer upon M. Guekoit the pension of three thousand 

 ) francs as a testimony of the estimation in which it holds his services as a public benefacton 

 ( Against such an appropriation of tlie public money there can be no objection. How much 

 mori rational it is that pensions and honors should be bestowed upon those who, by valuable i 

 scientific discoveries, by improvements in agriculture and manufactures, render themselves i 

 permanently useful to the world, than upon cheating politicians and successful soldiers. ' 



Yours respectfiffly, 0. A. O. ^ I 



