Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
BY WILLIS P. HAZARD, _Secretary of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission; President of the Chad’s Ford Farmers’ Club; a Vice-President of the American Dairyman’s Association; Lecturer upon Agriculture at the Delaware State College, &c., &c.; Author of Treatises “On the Jersey, Gu...
Now all of this knowledge must, to put it into profit practically, be supplemented by the careful examination of the hair and the skin, of the escutcheon, and the udder: of the...
7. Part 7In the following descriptions of the ten classes, and their sub-division into six orders each, we give the quantity as stated, for a large-sized cow. Not thinking it worth while...
3. Part 37. _Epi jonctif_, mesian tuft. The mesian or dart-like tuft, with soft silky ascending hair, is rarely seen, and only in those classes in which the escutcheon does not ascend to...
2. Part 2Fifty years ago there was dawning upon the world the first ray of a great discovery. A star was rising in the agricultural world, which was about to shed new light, and like man...
1. Part 1BY WILLIS P. HAZARD, _Secretary of the Pennsylvania Guenon Commission; President of the Chad’s Ford Farmers’ Club; a Vice-President of the American Dairyman’s Association; Lectu...
6. Part 6He says in another article “feeling the modesty that naturally attaches itself to benighted ignorance,” he “started out in the city in search of some one who was learned on thes...
5. Part 5“BULLS.—Guenon’s second and hardly less important discovery was that the bull had the same marks as the cow, only somewhat shorter and narrower. Guenon bestows upon these marks...
12. Part 12The ten 200 pound butter cows, in ten years would pay a profit of $1,957 30. If the ten cows bred from them, by using the 400 pound butter bull, would make half as much again bu...
8. Part 8About this time, whether he is castrated or whether he is “twisted,” he preserves always the altered form of the bull, and is less sought for work, and in less request for butch...
11. Part 11The above examination of our herds of cows, some of which were covered by a large blanket, completely excluding from view every part of the animal except the escutcheon and back...
10. Part 10ACCOUNTS OF THE HERD BY EASTBURN |OPINIONS OF THE HERD BY THE GUENON REEDER. | COMMISSION. | _No. 1._—BELL.—Age, 12 years. |_No. 1._—BELL.—Grade, Alderney. Grade, Alderney. Calv...
9. Part 9The commission examined, in addition to the twenty-five cows on this list, Mr. Harvey’s Guernsey imported bull “Sir Champion,” which is thoroughly well marked; perhaps, the best...
13. Part 13“At the New York State fair, in September, 1879, Mr. Hazard applied the Guenon system to a large number of cows of different breeds on exhibition, and told the amount of milk ea...