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that should be considered in selecting and breeding cows for mill<; pro- 

 duction are prominent. The large mouth indicates good feeding quali- 

 ties; the large, distended nostrils, constitution; the clean-cut, long face 

 from the eye to the nose indicates a lack of beef making qualities; the 

 broad-dished face between the two large, prominent eyes indicate not 

 only nervous temperament but plenty of brain capacity, which is as nec- 

 essary in the dairy cow as any other animal. The long, clean-cut neck 

 free from beefiness again shows a lack of beef making qualities and the 

 clean-cut withers, open-jointed back and freedom from fleshy covering 

 over the entire body again indicates a well developed nervous tempera- 

 ment. The depth of chest and heart girth gives room for plenty of con- 

 stitution and the extreme length and depth of body assures feeding ca- 

 pacity. The clean-cut thigh and the freedom from fat in this region of 

 the body gives sufficient room for a large, well developed udder which 

 is present and through which the blood flows in large amounts, carrying 

 with it those nutrients which have been taken from the feed as is indi- 

 cated by the long, tortuous mammary veins. Cows of this character are 

 produced by careful breeding and feeding and are the result of good 

 sires such as is Howie's Fizzaway, also owned by J. F. Converse & Co. 



No. 9. Howie's Fizzaway. First Prize and Champion Ayrshire 

 Bull at National Dairy Show, 1909. 



the Ayrshire bull that was grand champion of this breed at this year's 

 National Dairy Show. Although he shows a trifle more of the beef 

 making qualities than does Dijkestra Beauty Lad or Lord Mar, still the 

 clean-cutness of his features, the manner in which he cuts up in the 

 flank, the deep body, heart girth and chest as well as the length of neck 

 and length from the hip bone to the pin bone, assures his value as a 

 progenitor of great producing daughters. From a strictly dairy stand- 

 point his individuality would be criticized by a lacking in length rrom 

 the eye to the nose, a rather dull expression of the eye, beefiness of the 

 hind quarters and rather too much fat over the entire body. It will be 



