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

 belly toward the heart." (From photo Castleraain's Nancy 4th, a 

 Ayrshire owned by Penshurst Farms.) 



of milk a day. "ExceiDting- for a slight shock at the firs1 

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

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

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

 generally assumed by dairy cattle critics, that the large: 

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

 the greater the producing capacity of the cow. In othe 

 words, the heaviest milkers may be expected to have th 

 greatest vein development. Van Pelt, well known as ! 

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

 tremely good cow whose system of mammary veins an( 

 wells was not extremely well developed, and I have neve 

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

 has been my pleasure to examine such cows as Colanth; 

 4th 's Johanna, Jacoba Irene, Dairymaid of Pinehurst an( 

 Financial Countess, and without exception their veining i 



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



