JUDGING THE DAIKY COW IN SCHOOLS. 

 General score card for the dairy coic. 



Perfect 



1. General form 



Wedge shaped, when viewed from side, top, 

 and front 6 



Size for the breed — Jersey, 800 pounds; Guern- 

 sey, 1,050 pounds; AjTshire, 1,000 pounds; 

 Holstein, 1,200 pounds 3 



2. Quality 



Hide — thin, mellow, pliable, and loose 2 



Hair — fine, soft 1 



Secretions — abundant, yellowish 1 



Flesh — muscular, free from bunchiness 1 



Veins — large and prominent 1 



Bone — fine and clean 1 



3. Head 



Forehead — broad between the eyes and dished 



according to breed 1.0 



Face — medium in length, clean cut in outUne, 



dished below eyes 5 



Nostrils— large. . ." 1. 



Muzzle — broad, but not coarse 1. 



Jaws — wide at base, strong 5 



Ears— medium sized, thin, hair fine, blood 



vessels showing, secretion abundant .i 



Eyes— full, prominent, clear, and bright 1. 



Horns — small at base, incurving, attached 



close together at poll 5 



4 . Neck 



Moderately thin, of good length, nearly free 

 from loose skin, neatly joined, throat clean. 



5. Forequarters 



Shoulders — withers sharp; shoulder blades 

 lean 2 



Chest — broad and deep, well sprung foreribs; 

 large heart girth; moderately full crops; 

 brisket light 8 



Forelegs — straight, fine bone, strong 1 



6. Body — capacity 



Back — straight, strong, vertebrae prominent. 5 



Ribs — long, flat, well sprung, wide apart 3 



Abdomen (barrel) — long, deep, broad, well 

 held up; loin broad, strong and level; flanks 



low 10 



. Hindquarters 



H ips — wide apart^ prominent 3 



itump — long, wide, level 3 



f^in bones— widely spaced, on level with liips. 3 

 Thighs — incurving; escutcheon broad, ex- 

 tending well up on pin bones 1 



Tail— tapering, fine boned, long aJid neatly 



set on; switch , long 1 



Hind leers— squarely placed not sickle hocked, 



bone fine ; 1 



8. Mammary s vstem 



ITdder— large; quarters even and not cut up 

 between; extending well iip behind and 

 well forward in front; not fleshy; soft and 



pliable 20 



Teats — squarely placed; even in size; of con- 

 venient size for milking; free from lumps, 



not leaky or hard to milk 8 



Mammary veins and wells — veins long, 

 branching, tortnons, entering body well 

 forward ; welLs large '. 7 



Total 



Percentage 

 value. 



Student's 

 score. 



Instructor's 

 score. 



