No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 229 



It is the same way with the conformation as we come down to the 

 udder, drawing that line in this form (indicating on blackboard); 

 that is the way that the dairy animal should stand, while the beef 

 animal will turn right out the other way, and then come in and add 

 it on in this way, for the beef animal instead -of being cut out for 

 butter in that way, you have the udder just coming right out in 

 this form. This side of the animal starts down slender here, swells 

 a little in this line, and grows up in this angular form; the udder 

 comes swinging around in this form (indicating) and every man will 

 notice when a cow has had her third calf, her udder will just come 

 down just a little bit above her knees and her teats will reach just 

 a little below the knee, coming down in that way (indicating on 

 blackboard). 



(Mr. Detrich made quite a lengthy explanation wholly with refer- 

 ence to a diagram of a cow on the blackboard which, because of its 

 character and relation to the diagram, had to be omitted, for the 

 reason that without the diagram, it would not be intelligible.) 



The head is just as important in a dairy animal as it is in people. 

 If the animal has not got a good head, you don't want it; and you 

 also want a real good jaw. 



(Mr. Detrich traced the lines of head and jaw as he conceived they 

 ought to be.) 



Unless we sit down and study the figures of animals along the 

 particular lines that we are dealing with in our breeding, we shall 

 never make any progress because we shall not have the necessary 

 data to work from. We must know what we are after and breed 

 accordingly, and how can we select unless we know what we are 

 after. 



In the New Jersey Bulletin — the last issue — you can see the cut of 

 the son of Tudor; I wish every one present could examine that. I 

 never saw as fine a head, as fine fore-shoulders, nor a better fore-arm 

 on an animal in my life. I hope you will look at it carefully. You 

 want a bull to be masculine, but you never want him to be coarse. 

 A bull ought to have a crest that is high; the head of the sire should 

 be high, but yet not coarse. There should be no coarseness about 

 it. The hindquarters of the sire should be exactly like the hind- 

 quarters of the dam. The dam throws her hindquarters on the son, 

 and the sire throws his hindquarters on the heifer. This law holds 

 wonderfully well in scientific breeding. These laws hold very much 

 more permanently than we are inclined to believe. 



You sit down and cut from the newspapers all the different ani- 



