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tangular, outlining the so-called wedges, the appearance of 

 which is contributed to by the features of structure already 

 enumerated, the functions of which are prerequisite to milk 

 production. Both reproduction and milk production are 

 distinctly feminine functions, hence femininity should domi- 

 nate the make-up of a dairy cow. The feminine form is 



Fig. 100. — A typical dairy cow. 



characterized by a light, shallow, narrow forequarter and 

 correspondingly greater width and depth of the hind- 

 quarter. This, of itself, is suggestive of both a horizontal 

 and a perpendicular wedge, the apex directed forward 

 whether seen from the side or the front. The wedge or 

 triangle suggestion is made more pronounced in the profile 

 view by the base of the triangle being extended to the 



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