48 ESTIMATION OF THE UDDER. 



each of these points were valued at one dollar, and a 

 perfect North Devon cow was valued at one hundred 

 dollars ; then another cow of the same blood, and equal 

 to the first in every respect except in her udder, which 

 is such as to make it certain that she can never be 

 capable of giving milk enough to nourish her calf, must 

 be worth, according to the estimation of the best Devon 

 breeders, ninety-nine dollars ! It is safe, therefore, to 

 say that an animal whose udder and lacteal glands are 

 regarded, by those who best know her capacities and 

 her merits, as of only one quarter part as much conse- 

 quence as the color of her nose, or half as much as the 

 shape and size of her horns, cannot be recommended 

 for the dairy. The improved North Devon cow may 

 be classed, in this respect, with the Hereford, neither 

 of which has well-developed milk-vessels — a poinl of 

 the utmost consequence to the practical dairyman. 



The list of pure-bred races in America may be said 

 to end here ; for, though other and well-established 

 breeds, like the long-horns, the Galloways, the Spanish, 

 <fec, have, at times, been imported, and have had some 

 influence on our American stock, they have not been 

 kept distinct to such an extent as to have become the 

 prevailing stock of any particular section, so far as I 

 am aware, and hence a notice of them properly comes 

 in the next chapter. 



