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3 : The ^egs and tail will be f:\\e, because they are little 

 used by cattle so carefully stabled and to whom food is brought 

 by attendants. The fineness of the hand of the profession?! man 

 as compared with the laboring man's hand, is a case in point. 



4: The hips should be broad and the pelvic arch high. 

 Both of these points are evidently the outgrowth of the contmued 

 development of the procreative system. Here wc have ample 

 room for the young and easy delivery of the same. Most, if not 

 all, of these various points have been more or less understood 

 as applied to the cow, but the fatal error has been made in not 

 tracing the same laws in the conformation of the sire. 



The Dairy Sire More Than Half the Herd. 



We now take an outline of a noted dairy sire and upon 

 examination you will find the same laws of form for purpose, 

 written in his body. 



Vitality. 



Note it in umbilical attachment, heart and lung room, 

 breadth between the fore legs, junction of spine and skull, with 

 hair and skin of good quality. See under this head, as in case 

 of the cow, before given. 



Nerve Force. 



Here again we have the full eye, the large back bone, the 

 length of tail, and the broad and dished forehead. 



Digestion. 



The great mothers have again put their mark on their son, 

 by giving a broad muzzle, prominent spinal processes, the wide 

 spacing of the rib, as at 3, great depth, as at 4. 



Milk Secretion. 



Strange as it may appear to some, the mother markings are 

 carried to a still greater extent than that already noted. We 

 now must give more careful detail. He will also be " cat 

 hammed," and udder development will be easily traced by the 

 fullness of the skin at the point numbered 6, extending the whole 

 length and breadth of the rear under part of the body, which 



