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Fig. 174. "The milk veins convey the blood from the udder along the 

 belly toward the heart." (From photo Castlemain's Nancy 4th, an 

 Ayrshire owned by Penshurst Farms.) 



of milk a day. "Excepting for a slight shock at the first, 

 this cow has apparently suffered no ill effects, and ,is in 

 good condition, and is producing well at the present time, ' ' 

 after having the veins tied for three months. It has been 

 generally assumed by dairy cattle critics, that the larger, 

 the longer and more tortuous (twisted or crooked) the veins, 

 the greater the producing capacity of the cow. In other 

 words, the heaviest milkers may be expected to have the 

 greatest vein development. Van Pelt, well known as a 

 dairy cattle judge, writes: 16 "I have never seen an ex- 

 tremely good cow whose system of mammary veins and 

 wells was not extremely well developed, and I have never 

 seen a really poor cow with a great mammary system. It 

 has been my pleasure to examine such cows as Colantha 

 4th 's Johanna, Jacoba Irene, Dairymaid of Pinehurst and 

 Financial Countess, and without exception their veining is 



16 Cow Demonstration. Hugh G. Van Pelt, 1911, p. 51. 



