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between the eyes and the poll. The longer a cow is between 

 the eyes and the poll, as a rule, the better developed is the 

 brain. And I want to say to you, my friends, that maternity 

 has wonderfully to do with the brain ; that there is no otber 

 function on earth that so exhaustively calls upon the brain 

 and upon the nervous system as the function of maternity ; 

 and when you are dealing with the cow you are dealing 

 with the enhanced expression of motherhood or maternity, 

 and therefore you must study this subject from the stand- 

 point of physiology. I regret very much that veterinary 

 science gives us scarcely anything in this line. I have 

 written all over Europe for studies upon this question, and 

 have not been able to find any except studies of tl;e human 

 mother ; and the study of her has been very largely contrib- 

 utory to what I have known in this matter. 



Now, the neck of a dairy cow should show a strong, firm 

 jointure of the head. In judging of a cow, put your hand 

 back of the horn, and examine to see whether the spine 

 comes up full and strong to the head. If there is a weakness 

 apparent there, you will find that the cow is very likely to 

 fail easily in her work. A dairy cow has a thin neck; the 

 beef animal, the bullock of the feminine gender, has a thick 

 neck. This indicates the difference of their function and the 

 difference of their temperament which lies below. Now, the 

 thin neck is indicative of that femininity that you are search- 

 ing for, — the enlarged expression of femininity. A dairy 

 cow should show a sharp shoulder. There, again, is the 

 expression of the nervous temperament. Compare a race- 

 horse, for instance, with a draft-horse. A race-horse has a 

 sloping shoulder, thrown right back ; the withers are sharp. 

 Did any man ever see a race-horse, that was of large perform- 

 ance, with a mutton shoulder? They are very rare. I have 

 seen an Indian pony before now, I have seen a few horses, 

 that had some ability in that direction ; but I never saw a 

 horse that was able to run a mile in 1.40 that had a mutton 

 shoulder. Now, why has the race-horse got this sloping 

 shoulder thrown back ? For the very evident purpose of let- 

 ting out the forward feet. The old Arab, as I told you, 

 said, "Form is everything to purpose." Just so in the 

 dairy cow. 



