274 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



the blood and causing the transmission of the 

 trouble to the latest generations, but they also 

 leave their mark on the animal's outward form, 

 and so warn the observer to beware/ The chief 

 of these warnings is to be read in a narrow and 

 contracted chest and other outward signs of in- 

 sufficient room for the pulmonary organs. Sec- 

 ondary evidences are sometimes apparent in 

 the dry, hard, and insufficient coats, which indi- 

 cate a bad circulation. All such evidences of 

 unthrift are to be looked for, and when found 

 are to be carefully considered as plainly indi- 

 cating a want of vigor in the animal. In general 

 it may be said that the largest possible room is 

 required wherever the vital organs are situated 

 for their most healthy action. To speak briefly, 

 then, the animal that shows a broad, deep chest 

 with abundant floor room, giving a fine brisket, 

 a wide chine and full crops, with the region 

 back of the shoulder well filled out, running 

 down well to the fore flank, and good barrel 

 with finely-sprung ribs is the sort that every 

 one takes as the model of strong and vigorous 

 constitution, and that is the sort the breeder 

 wants. Wherever the contrary is found there 

 is almost sure to be an unthrifty animal. Not 

 necessarily an unhealthy, but almost invariably 

 an unthrifty animal. And while the one entails 

 a direct loss the other deprives the purchaser of 

 making any profit on the capital invested, which 



