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1882 HOW TO SELECT COWS The Guenon System Simplified FARMING CATTLE Agriculture
1882 HOW TO SELECT COWS The Guenon System Simplified FARMING CATTLE Agriculture
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How to Select Cows;
Or, The Guenon System Simplified Explained and Practically Applied
By Willis P. Hazard
Published by J M Stoddart, Philadelphia, 1882. First Edition. Hardback, tall 8vo, pp 90, [2], with nearly 100 illustrations photographed from Guenon's engravings.
CONDITION
A good copy. Spine mostly missing and worn through and some discoloration to the cloth boards. Internally the book is complete and in good clean condition throughout. Ink stamp to the front and rear inside boards (Lawes Agricultural Trust). Pages very clean throughout. Overall a very good copy in a worn binding.
PREFACE
The want has long been felt for a hand-book which would simplify and explain the invaluable discovery of Guenon, to
enable any one to select good stock. There can be no doubt if this discovery is made to be easily acquired, that millions of dollars would be saved to the community by the improvement of herds and a consequent reduction in the price of bovine products, on account of the increased yield and the lower cost of raising it.
The State of Pennsylvania, in 1878, appointed a commission to test the system and report upon it. As a member of that commission, we found there was with many a superficial knowledge of the subject, with others enough acquaintance with the system to destroy their faith in it, and with nearly all a desire to obtain sufficient practical knowledge of the system to enable them to judge understanding^ and to practice it.
With a view to fill these wants, we have undertaken the explanation of the system in the following pages to enable all to fill up their measure of knowledge of the system, so that the superficial shall become thorough, the doubting acquire new faith, and all see its merits the more they practice and apply it.
We have accordingly given a sketch of M. Guenon and the progress of his discovery ; the preface to his last edition
explaining his views ; an explanation of his system of escutcheon marks ; a description of the various escutcheons and their indications of value and quantity, and directions how to practically apply them, together with an abstract of the report of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission.
Believing that we have thus presented a comprehensive view of this discovery, we trust every one into whose hands this work may come, will patiently, book in hand, go into the farmyard and judge the value of his stock by the rules here set forth, compare the results with his individual knowledge of his stock, and fairly estimate the value of the system.
(Loc: Agriculture)
Or, The Guenon System Simplified Explained and Practically Applied
By Willis P. Hazard
Published by J M Stoddart, Philadelphia, 1882. First Edition. Hardback, tall 8vo, pp 90, [2], with nearly 100 illustrations photographed from Guenon's engravings.
CONDITION
A good copy. Spine mostly missing and worn through and some discoloration to the cloth boards. Internally the book is complete and in good clean condition throughout. Ink stamp to the front and rear inside boards (Lawes Agricultural Trust). Pages very clean throughout. Overall a very good copy in a worn binding.
PREFACE
The want has long been felt for a hand-book which would simplify and explain the invaluable discovery of Guenon, to
enable any one to select good stock. There can be no doubt if this discovery is made to be easily acquired, that millions of dollars would be saved to the community by the improvement of herds and a consequent reduction in the price of bovine products, on account of the increased yield and the lower cost of raising it.
The State of Pennsylvania, in 1878, appointed a commission to test the system and report upon it. As a member of that commission, we found there was with many a superficial knowledge of the subject, with others enough acquaintance with the system to destroy their faith in it, and with nearly all a desire to obtain sufficient practical knowledge of the system to enable them to judge understanding^ and to practice it.
With a view to fill these wants, we have undertaken the explanation of the system in the following pages to enable all to fill up their measure of knowledge of the system, so that the superficial shall become thorough, the doubting acquire new faith, and all see its merits the more they practice and apply it.
We have accordingly given a sketch of M. Guenon and the progress of his discovery ; the preface to his last edition
explaining his views ; an explanation of his system of escutcheon marks ; a description of the various escutcheons and their indications of value and quantity, and directions how to practically apply them, together with an abstract of the report of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission.
Believing that we have thus presented a comprehensive view of this discovery, we trust every one into whose hands this work may come, will patiently, book in hand, go into the farmyard and judge the value of his stock by the rules here set forth, compare the results with his individual knowledge of his stock, and fairly estimate the value of the system.
(Loc: Agriculture)
