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will be easily taken up in folds by the hand. He will also be 

 fine haired, for reasons given before. The milk veins will be 

 perceptible, and particularly the entrances as at 7, through the 

 abdominal wall. 



Sometimes two holes will appear on a side, but that is rare. 

 The entrance near the fore part of the body is also worthy of 

 note. Here is one of the best places to gauge the strength of 

 dairy line breeding. The embryo teats should be well placed; 

 this is of more importance than their size. 



Last, but vitally important, the space numbered 2, should 

 be W'cll pitched, as in the case of the cow. You may lay it 

 down as a rule that roundness here and meating well down to 

 the hocks is ruin, in advance, in dairy breeding. Such a sire 

 will beget heifers that are short in the milking period and tend- 

 ing to put on flesh and lacking in udder capacity. 



Incidental Indications. 



Will be the same as noted in the case of the cow, save that 

 the neck will be muscular, as essential to the fighting qualities 

 inherent in his sex. So briefly outlined, are the outward signs 

 of that inward grace of dairy prepotency in the bull that the 

 dairy world needs today. Many men who knew cows of quality 

 when they saw them, have never once recognized dairy qualities 

 in the sire, and have bred good cows to pure bred but worthless 

 " pretty " bulls, and have ruined their herds. Such instances 

 are continually being brought to our notice. We develop cows 

 with ample feed and care, and then destroy the gain, so far as it 

 would affact their heifers, by the use of bad bulls, registered 

 though they be. A bull that has not enough dairy quality within 

 himself to mark his own form with, is certainly a poor bull to 

 use to transmit that quality to others. 



The reader will readily understand that the indications, 

 outlined in this article, are the results of generations of dairy 

 conditions. Nature adapts herself to those conditions by select- 

 ing this best form that we have tried to outline. She will per- 

 sistently push this form to our notice. It remains wnth men who 

 have " eyes that see " to recognize these signs of desired quality 



