464 Guenons System of Selecting Cows ly the Escutcheon. 
Natural history repeats itself as well as political history, an(} 
men are very much what their physical environment makes them. 
I have endeavoured to present a picture of the Canadian 
Agriculture of to-day. At some future time another pen than 
mine will perhaps write its history again, and the progress 
recorded will probably be great. If I have erred in the dis- 
charge of my task, I believe the severest critic will hardly assert 
it to have been in the employment of colours of too brilliant a 
hue. But I am free to confess that I have sometimes had to 
repress an enthusiasm — pardonable I hope — born of my admira- 
tion of the persevering struggles of the men of our own race, 
and language, and aspirations, who, in the land of the beaver 
and the buffalo, have founded a civilization and established a 
great agricultural colony ; whose people are imbued with an 
ardent and unselfish loyalty to the country whence they sprang, 
the spirit of which is reciprocated on this side of the Atlantic, 
and will, I hope, constitute for ever a bond of union between 
the mother country and the noble heritage which belongs to her 
sons and daughters in the Western Hemisphere. The com- 
pletion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which unites with a 
steel band the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Dominion of 
Canada, inaugurates a new era of peaceful conquest. As the 
years roll on, the pioneers of an improving and progressive 
Agriculture will move in increasing numbers in the direction 
of the setting sun, and establish new monuments of British 
industry and British enterprise on those lonely and distant 
prairies in the North West where, as yet, 
" nrasses that never luicw a scythe 
Wave all the summer long." 
XVII. — Guenon's Si/stem of Selective Cows by the Escutcheon. By 
Willis P. Hazaed, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Guenon 
Commission, West Chester, Pa. 
[Eoprintpil fnim the Report of the Pennsylva'.iia State Board of Agriculture 
for 1883, pp. 112-132. Hanisbuig, 188LJ 
In the volume of Agricultural Reports of Pennsylvania for 
1878, will be found the report of a commission appointed by 
Governor Hartranft, at the solicitation of the State Board 
of Agriculture, to examine into the value of the system of 
M. Guenon for ascertaining, by outward marks, the true value 
of every cow, calf, or bull. The constant and growing demand 
