THE LIVE STOCK OF THE FARM. 577 



POINTS. 



26. HIND-LEGS, not to cross in walking 1 



27. HOOFS, small 1 



28. UDDER, full in form, i.e., well in line with the belly 1 



29. UDDER, well up behind 1 



30. TEATS, large, squarely placed ; behind wide apart... 1 



31. MILK-VEINS, very prominent 1 



32. Growth 1 



33. General appearance 1 



34. Condition 1 



Perfection 34 



NO prize shall be awarded to cows having less than twenty-nine points 



N > prize shall be awarded to heifers having less than twenty-six points. 



Cows having obtained twenty-seven points, and heifers twenty-four 

 points, shall be allowed to be branded, but cannot take a prize. 



These points, namely, Nos. 28, 29, and 31 shall be deducted from the 

 number required for perfection in heifers, as their udder and milk-veins 

 IN ti mot be fully developed : a heifer ivill, therefore, be considered perfect 

 at thirty -one points. 



To this we add : 



One point must be added for pedigree on male side. 



One point must be added for pedigree on female side. 



Again, the size of the escutcheon, or milk-mirrors, is a point of especial 

 attention. 



In judging bulls, many of the same points will serve. The head will 

 not be so small, and the forehead must be broad ; the horns must be tip- 

 with black ; the neck, arched, powerful, but not too coarse and hea\ \ 

 hide thicker than the cow certainly not thin and mellow; fore 1 



:t ;unl straight, fore arm large and powerful, full above the knee and 

 linn h 1 ;\v it. As in cows, pedigree must have two points, one for purity 

 of hluud uti the male side, and one for purity of blood on the female M 



:I-;EDS OF CATTLE IN CANADIAN IAI i:i;n v 



In tastituting comparisons hetween various hi- Is of cattle, it should 



he overlooked that circumstances of climate*, locality, and soil 

 an influence more or less marked upon their peculiarities, and 

 tude for fattening and yielding milk or the reverse. The in!lu< 

 of tin- pan-in- i to he taken into account . and the way in which 



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