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trifling extent, as it means lessening the quantity of the 

 yield when the test of productiveness is taken in pounds 

 and ounces. No better idea of a well-shaped udder could 

 be given than that furnished in Fig. 38. 



SIZE AND SHAPE. Size without shape goes for little, 

 as shape means something more than symmetry or pic- 

 turesqueness. The points embodied in the configuration 

 of a goat have some reference, or at least are supposed 

 to have some reference, to its milking qualities. These 



Fig. 38. Anglo-Nubian She-Goat, the property or the Rev. D. 



Campbell Mayers, of Gracechurch, Radford, Virginia, U.S.A. 



Bred from stock imported from England. 



points are, in the main, a long, level body, with prominent 

 withers and width between the hip bones, well-sprung 

 ribs, a slender neck, a broad chest (indicating constitution 

 rather than milk, however), and legs straight 'and of pro- 

 portionate length. There should be a gradual deepening 

 of the frame as it approaches the hind-quarters, this being 

 a decided milking attribute, but one which generally 

 develops with age. The style of head depends very much 



