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IOWA DEPARTMENT£OF AGRICULTURE 



No. 12. Hector's Fairy Belle. 



Hector's Fairy Belle, a Jersey cow that produced in eleven 

 months 681 pounds, l^^ ounces of butter, illustrates more clearly 

 than the other views the proper udder development. In order to insure 

 great production the cow must have a large udder. In order for the 

 udder to be large and capacious it must be attached high behind and it 

 must extend far forward. It must be broad and to a certain extent deep 

 and not pendulant. Pendulant udders, or those whch are narrow and 

 do not hang well up to the body line, are very troublesome in that they 

 are more susceptible to infections and to such diseases as garget, mam- 

 mitis and other diseases. 



The uniformity of udder development, placement of teats, constitu- 

 tion and dairy type and conformation are indicated in this view 

 of the four Holstein cows. Especially prominent in each individual in 

 this picture is the great length from the hip bone to the pin bone, the 

 straightness of the tail head, the freedom from beefiness in the hind 

 quarters, the incurving thighs, the width, depth and length of udder de- 

 velopment. The production of a dairy composed of four cows such as 

 these would be equal in butter production to the average Iowa dairy herd 

 consisting ot ten cows. 



