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depriving buyers of one method of determining the 

 milking qualities. 



"It is superfluous to add, that the cows most care- 

 fully shaven are those which were ill marked by the tuft, 

 and that it is therefore prudent to assume that cows 

 with the perinseum shaved are bad." 



Guenon says that the importance of the scutcheon is 

 sometimes diminished, and at others increased, by the 

 different tufts which are usually met with, according to 

 their form, nature, position and extent. With the ex- 

 ception of the oval ones, seen at fig. 2, all tufts encroach- 

 ing on the scutcheon diminish its value, or in other 

 words indicate a diminished aptitude for yielding milk. 

 Another tuft serves to distinguish the good from the 

 bastard* cows. It exists on either side of the vulva, as in 

 figs. I and 6, or as on the perineum of the Flanders, fig. 3. 



Fig. 10. Fig. II. 



When the scutcheon is well formed and fine, the indi- 

 vidual bearing it belongs to the first or second order of 

 its class ; but when the scutcheon is occupied over a 

 portion of its surface by certain epis or tufts, the animals 

 descend one or more orders in the classification. 



^ * Bastard cows fail rapidly in their milk soon after being impregnated ; they are 

 decidedly marked. See the author's work " How to Select Cows." 

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