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DAIRYING. 



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Model Dairy Cow. 



The digestive organs should be strong and energetic to make 

 an abundance of good blood, which in turn stimulates the action of 

 the nervous system, and furnishes the milk glands with the means 

 of copious secretions. 



The mouth should be large and broad; the eye bright and 

 sparkhng, but of a marked placidness of expression, with no indica- 

 .tion of wildness ; but, on the contrary; of a mild, feminine look. 

 The horns should be small, short, yellow, and tapering. The neck 

 should be small, thin, arid tapering toward the head, but thickening 

 when it approaches the shoulders. , The fore quarters should' be 

 small when corhpared with the hind quarters. 



The form of the barrel should be large, and each rib project 

 farther than the preceding one up to the loins. She should be 

 well formed across the hips and in the rump. The spine, or back- 

 bone, should be straight rather than loosely hung, or open along 

 the middle part, — the result of the distance between the dorsal ver- 

 tebrae, which sometimes causes a slight depression or swaying in 

 the back. 



The rump should be of great weight, and the pelvis large ; the 

 organs and milk vessels in the cavities should be largely developed. 

 The skin over the rump should be loose and flexible. In fact, the 



