168 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION • 



A : — In the hands of the average fanner it would be better 

 to leave that alone. 



Q: — I have never tried it, I have read of it. 



Prof. Fraser: — After I have run over this scorecard, we 

 will try and have a discussion. 



Before passing from the udder I would say that it should be 

 soft and pliable. Sometimes you have a cow that has no loose 

 skin at all around the udder. If a good milker, she is going to 

 have an amount of soft pliable skin. 



MILK VEINS. Those milk veins run from the udder 

 under the body, back of the shoulder and go to the heart. What 

 are the milk veins for? If a vein, it must carry the blood from 

 the extremity back to the heart again. The udder is a secreting 

 gland and if well supplied with milk you must have good large 

 milk veins. They wind back and forth before entering the milk 

 well. The milk wells are the holes into the abdomen. That is 

 because you need a large vein. Rump we want broad at both 

 hip and pin bones indicating pelvic capacity. 



Temperament strong indicating maternity. We have a cow 

 there at the University, that if you couldn't see anything back 

 you would say she was a steer. You want a cow with indications 

 of maternity. If you think it looks like a cow, I think you know 

 what that means. Then give 30 points to her. 



The next is FEEDING QUALITIES. The first thing 

 under that heading is Barrel. The portion of the animal back 

 of the shoulders and in front of the hips. The barrel should be 

 long, simply want to get capacity there. The longer you have it 

 the fuller the capacity. You want it deep for the same reason, 

 and full at the paunch. Large in all respects. Why? I think 

 that is evident to most of you for the reason that the rough 

 feed is the cheaper feed for the dairy cow. For rough feed 

 and making milk out of it we must have a large capacity to hold 

 it. You can't put a large amount of rough feed into a small 

 space. It is always the cow with the large capacity that in the 

 end is the economical producer. Plenty of space between the 

 flat space and hip. 10 points for that because it is the next im- 

 portant point we have. 



