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a full expansion of the lungs, the chest being rather 

 deep than broad ; the flat-sided cow is more especially 

 to be chosen as a milker. The hips should be wide, 

 rugged and high, and the pelvis (or haunches) wide and 

 large, drooping toward the tail ; the thigh long and lean 

 from hip to hock, the veins being prominent and easily 

 felt ; the legs slender, with flat bone and small, flat feet, 

 the hinder ones having good width between, to afford 

 room for the udder. A lonor and thin tail is a ereat 

 point in breeding. 



I now come to the udder, to which all former remarks 

 are secondary. This part, the reservoir of the milk, 

 should be free from hair, flexible and soft, with no tend- 

 ency to flesh ; the bag extending well forward, as level 

 as possible with the belly, and high up betv/een the 

 thighs. The feeding veins should be particularly ob- 

 served. In the heifer with the first calf they must be 

 felt for with the hand ; in this case two holes will be 

 discovered by feeling under the belly nearly in a line 

 with the navel, on each side, in good milking heifers, of 

 about the size of a sixpence. As age increases the 

 holes extend, and the veins become large and easily 

 perceived by the eye ; the larger these feeding veins 

 appear, the greater is the quantity of milk. The teats 

 should be w^ell separated, not fat or fleshy, and not too 

 long, but sufficiently tight to retain the milk, having a 

 tendency downward — that is, to use the technical term, 

 not strutting, or pointing away from the quarters, as this 

 causes waste of milk and difficulty in milking. These 



