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Fig. 166. — "The udder should be long, extend- 

 ing high up behind between the thighs, and car- 

 ried well forward along the belly." 



judges prefer this 

 long type of udder 

 to the deeper or 

 more pendant one. 

 The long udder is 

 strongly supported 

 by its muscular at- 

 tachment, while the 

 pendant one is 

 weaker of form, 

 and shows the ten- 

 dency to breaking 

 down that goes 

 with age. The hori- 

 zontally long udder also furnishes a more convenient form 

 for the milker to approach with his pail. While it does 

 not follow that the long udder may produce more milk, 

 or even as much, as the pendant form, evidence secured 

 by the author years ago " demonstrated that length of this 

 gland is only se- 

 cured through the 

 development of the 

 forequarter of the 

 udder. The nat- 

 ural tendency is 

 for the hindquar- 

 ter to extend well 

 up behind, and the 

 higher the better. 

 The forequarter is 

 often short, show- 

 ing little extension. 

 Frequently the ud- 

 der is what might 

 be termed funnel- 



Pig. 167. — "The pendant one is weaker of 

 form and shows the tendency to breaking down 

 that goes with age." 



" The Udder of the Cow, Bulletin 62, October, 1896, Purdue Univ. Agr. Exp. 

 station. 



