. Cattle and their diseases. Cattle. 62 CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES. on other parts of the body grows downward. The reduction of these marks into a system, explaining the value of particu- lar forms and sizes of the milk-mirror, belongs exclu- sively to Guenon. He divided the milk-mirror into eight classes, and each class into eight orders, mak- ing in all no less than sixty-four divisions, which he afterward increased by subdivisions, thus rendering the whole system compli- cated in the extreme, espe- cially as he professed to be able to judge with accuracy, by means of the milk-mirror, not onl
. Cattle and their diseases. Cattle. 62 CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES. on other parts of the body grows downward. The reduction of these marks into a system, explaining the value of particu- lar forms and sizes of the milk-mirror, belongs exclu- sively to Guenon. He divided the milk-mirror into eight classes, and each class into eight orders, mak- ing in all no less than sixty-four divisions, which he afterward increased by subdivisions, thus rendering the whole system compli- cated in the extreme, espe- cially as he professed to be able to judge with accuracy, by means of the milk-mirror, not only of the exact quantity a cow would give, but also of the quality of the milk, and of the length of time it would continue. He endeavored to prove too much, and was, as a matter of consequence, frequently at fault himself. Despite the strictures which have been passed upon Guenon's method of judging of cows, the best breeders and judges of stock concur in the opinion, as the result of their observations, that cows with the most perfectly developed milk-mirrors are, with rare exception, the best milkers of their breed ; and that cows with small and slightly developed milk-mirrors are, in the majority of cases, bad milkers. There are, undoubtedly, cows with very small mirrors, which. MILK-MIRROR [ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jennings, Robert, 1824-1893. Philadelphia, J. E. Potter;
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