VAN PELT'S COW DEMONSTRATION 



a beef-bred animal, and, to this extent, from the standpoint 

 of making beef, the dairy-bred animal is quite as profitable 

 as the beef-bred animal, but, owing to the fact that for gen- 

 eration after generation his ancestors have been bred for the 

 purpose of sending digested food nutrients to the underline 

 of the body rather than to the top line, when he reaches the 

 market he is found to be profitless. He is, therefore, dis- 

 criminated against to the extent of several cents per pound 

 by the packer, who knows that choice steaks are not and 

 never will be secured from the underline of the steer or from 

 the inside fat and tallow. 



But the steer is not to blame. He did just what his in- 

 herent characteristics compelled him to do. For too many 

 generations had the blood of his ancestors flowed to the 

 underline of the body for him or his master to change the 

 course. 



The Cow Not a Mysterious Being 



Neither can the cow whose ancestors for hundreds of 

 years have been selected and bred for the special purpose of 

 beef production be blamed because she does not produce milk 

 as profitably as dairy cows. 



If the dairyman will permit himself to consider for a 

 moment he will realize that the cow is really not a mysterious 

 being, and it is absolutely impossible for her to manufacture 

 out of a given amount of feed both milk and beef at the same 

 time. True it is that a portion of her food may be manu- 

 factured into beef and a portion of it into milk, but it is certain 

 that every pound of feed which is manufactured into beef 

 while the cow is milking is absolutely lost and wasted from 

 the standpoint of milk and butterfat production, and every 

 pound of feed that is manufactured into milk and butterfat 

 is absolutely lost and wasted from the standpoint of beef 

 production. 



Thus it is that the direction in which the blood flows 

 5 after picking up the milk-making nutrients is an important 

 f, consideration for the feeder of dairy cows. Likewise, the 

 \ volume of blood which circulates past the digestive apparatus 

 and, in turn, through the udder or milk-making factory, has 

 much to do with the amount of milk and butterfat produced. 

 If the volume of blood be great and the cow well fed, the 

 volume of nutrients will be great; and, in turn, if the milk- 

 making cells are efficient and numerous, the volume of milk 

 will be large. 



The volume of circulating blood and the direction in 

 which it flows are indicated by the escutcheon, mammary 

 veins and milk wells. 



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