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5. The back should be straighter, stronger and wider. 



6. The barrel should be relatively shorter and more 

 compact. 



7. The hind quarters should be relatively longer and 

 broader, the width being carried well back from loin to 

 tail-head, and the hip bones set well apart. 



CHAMPION BROWN SWISS COW 



[Typical Dual Purpose Cow.] 

 [By courtesy of the owner, E. M. Barton, Hinsd?,le, 111.] 



8. The rudimentary teats should be well developed 

 and the milk veins should be easily traceable. 



9. The skin should be thicker and heavier and yet it 

 should be loose, soft, pliable, mellow and elastic and covered 

 with a good coat of soft, silky hair. 



10. The general appearance should indicate what may 

 be termed irrepressible action, but without any tendency to 

 viciousness. 



As the indications of milk inheritance are not so easily 

 traced in the dairy male as in the female, it is more im- 

 portant relatively that he shall come from ancestry dis- 



