How to select cows; or the Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
by Willis P. Hazard
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
- Title
- How to Select Cows or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SF: Agriculture: Animal culture
- Subject
- Dairy cattle
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 62852
- Release Date
- August 4, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HOW TO SELECT COWS; OR THE GUENON SYSTEM SIMPLIFIED, EXPLAINED, AND PRACTICALLY APPLIED.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.LECTURES ON THE GUENON SYSTEM. — LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. — LECTURES UPON AGRICULTURE.
- 4.GUENON’S INTRODUCTION TO HIS NEW REVISED EDITION.
- 5.GUENON’S METHOD OF JUDGING OF THE VALUE OF STOCK. — On M. Guenon and his System. — The Escutcheon or Mirror. — The Progress of His System. — Imperfections and Tufts. — Of the Ovals. — Of the Bastards. — How to Apply the System Practically. — The Escutcheon. — The Shape of the Escutcheon. — Our Mode of Judging Stock. — Opinions of the System. — Objections to the System and to the Report of the Commission.
- 6.C. L. SHARPLESS ON THE ESCUTCHEON.
- 7.DESCRIPTION OF THE CLASSES AND ORDERS. Prepared by W. P. Hazard , Secretary of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission . — First Class. The Flanders Cow. — Second Class. Left Flanders. — Third Class.—Selvage. — The Fourth Class. Curveline. — The Fifth Class. The Bicorn. — The Sixth Class. Double Selvage. — The Seventh Class. Demijohn. — The Eighth Class. Square Escutcheon. — The Ninth Class. Limousines. — The Tenth Class.—Horizontal. — Effects of Crossing two Escutcheons.
- 8.ESCUTCHEONS ON BULLS. — Classification of Bull Reproducers.
- 9.REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GUENON COMMISSION. — The Commission at Barney’s Farm. — The Commission at Sharpless’ Farm. — The Commission at Strode’s Farm. — Examination of Thomas M. Harvey’s Stock of Jerseys and Guernseys, May 11, 1878. — Examination of William M. Large’s Herd, Chestnut Grove, Doylestown, Bucks County. — Report of the Examination of the Stock of Eastburn Reeder, of Rabbit Run Stock Farm, New Hope, Bucks County, Pa. — Examination of Eastburn Reeder’s Herd. — Examination of Moses Eastburn’s Cow, Beauty. — Examination of Colonel James Young’s Herd, at Middletown. — Examination of the Herd of William Calder, Esq., Harrisburg. — Examination of Several Herds near West Grove, Blanketed and Unblanketed, under the Supervision of a Committee of the Experimental Farm Club. — Commission’s Account of Milton E. Conard’s Cows : — Examination of J. & J. Darlington’s Cows, October 2d.
- 10.ADDENDA. — The Breeding and Value of well-selected Butter Cows. — Table A. — Table B. — Table C. — Table D. — Table E.
- 11.NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
- 12.EXTRACTS FROM THE MUCH LARGER NOTICES OF THE WORK.
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