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PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



consume a large supply of food for the manu- 

 facture of her milk. 



The ideal udder. The udder should be ample 

 in size; it should have good form with four well- 

 shaped teats; it should be soft after milking 

 and materially smaller than before milking. 



Fig. 15. The location of the milk wells. 

 Several milk wells of good size through which the mammary 

 veins pass into the body are the best indications of the amount 

 of blood that circulates through the udder and supplies the milk 

 secreting glands. 



Meaty udders are very undesirable, as they indi- 

 cate a lack of capacity. Since the udder must 

 be well supplied with arteries and veins in 

 order to furnish the milk-secreting cells with the 

 food material from which they are to secrete 



