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THE AIUTOR. . 731 bushels of good compost, per annnum, ed in 1853, entitled .."IIow to choofeo a can be raised to the hand, at but little good Milk Cow," in reference tbftho cost. And every one can do it in the indication of a good milk cow p;-J78, fpllowhig manner: Let the horse, cow ; says, f'Tlic writer has examined many and hog lots bo kept Avcll littered with liundred of daily xows inlJritain, and frequent .and bountiful, supplies .'of pine the conclusion arrived t at in regard to straw, oak. leaves; . cotton -and conv Mr. Guenon's test of judging of the stalks, muck, yoods: mould &c. Put up t milking propprties cf a.cow; by the de- the stock every night in these lots; and"' vclopement of the ccumoh, is that in a three or four times during the year, very large majority of the cases, it is when wet, after rain, the materials thus borne out by tlio facts." In a London trampled ad saturated should be rale- dairy, belonging to Mr. Riggs 31 Edg- . ed up clean and put in pits or pens , .ware road, where about 400 cows arc supplying new' materials abundantly e-- kept,, and where nhie-tentli3 of tlicni,, very time. The stable manure, .cotton arc far above average milkers the , seed arid green weeds collected after vclopement or upward growth of the hair laying by crops, will help to make rib- on the posterior part of the udder, ble compost heaps in the fields. In thighs, and perinteum, .was too remark- ; this way au astonishing amount of ma- able to be accounted for by accidental' nure may be raised in the course of the causes. As well might it be said that year. And this will make black-jack all other tests; such as length of head, 1 ridges produce equal to some ; of the softness ind-fc " crack" lands of the South. ' Keep, quarters, were accidental, and had no then, a constant eye to the growth of reference to the milking j)ropertics of a the manure heaps. cow. Wheirla J phcnonumoiipreseh tfi ; ; ,W. C. B. itself over and. byer aainf accompanied Franklin, April 10, '57. in a majority of cases by certain results we may be certain that it is not acciden- 31ILTC COWS AKO ESCUTCIIEOXS. tal, but natural:; and while we may be: When Gucnon's theory of detennin- unable to account for these results upon ing the value of milk cows, by the satisfactory grounds, it is neither philo- growth of hair on its thighs, above and pophical or prudent, to deny or ignore adjacent to the bag, was first introduc- the connection between the one and the ed, the idea was received with a good other, and thus to forfeit the advantages deal of scepticism. Time has wrought which the fact itself is calculated to at-, changes. At a late convention by the ford." 'legislative cluo of the State of Xew The late Mr. Thinney, of Massaehu York, one of the speakers gave the ev- setts, a very careful and critical obser Idencc in relation to Guenon's theory. : ver, made examination of a large num- "M. Guenon, a French writer, bus l)Cr of milk cows, and found in a major discovered certain indications which he ity of them that were good milkers, claims to determine the milking quali- these evedopements well marked. ITo. ties of cows. This he calls "escutclie- conversed with a large number of iutelli .ons," being the hair which grows up- gent gentlemen when he was abroad in ward's (contrary to the general rule, on 1851, in Great Britain and France, and; the udder, thighs, and hinder part of found but one opinion as to the general' tlie body. It is easy to distinguish the character of the animals which possessed escutcheon by the upward directions of these developements. And so far as we . the hair winch forms them. I cannot have learned the views of gentlemen m fo into detail here upon the system, this country who have given attention ut worthy of notice, I will alludo to to this subject, the result has been the the testimony of those who have given same. attention to it. "I think it may with safety be aflirm- Mr. John Haxton, in a work publish- cd that this 'one principle' is established
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