Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. "^^ 



from his manger and was eating up the straw of his bedding. 

 That was all that attracted my attention. I said to myself, 

 "Well, that little hungry youngster has eaten up all the hay 

 they gave him and now he has to fill up his paunch with straw. 

 I must go back and look at him." So I went back, unhitched 

 him and pulled him out on the floor, and I will tell you what I 

 did then. I noticed even then as a calf that he was deep and 

 capacious body even this picture does not give the extent that 

 he has developed in his middle piece. The next thing I put my 

 hand right here (illustrating on picture by placing hand on the 

 lower rear part of the body) this is a very important thing; I 

 found that the skin over that part of the body was just as soft 

 as silk; it was very loose there, as I pulled down the skin with 

 my hand it came down easily and loosely. What did that tell 

 me? Why I said, ''Back of him is a great line of cows with ud- 

 ders so large that when they dropped a male they dropped him 

 with the looseness of skin that had covered that part of the body 

 of his ancestors." Then I noted that the hair was fine, just like 

 silk. This also is very important. What does it mean? It 

 means that the blood of his ancestors had flowed there so long 

 and abundantly and had created so much of animal heat that Na- 

 ture had thrown off the covering of hair as we throw off our 

 overcoats when it is warm. Some of the cows have a hairless 

 udder. 



Another thing, I put my hand on the lower part of the body 

 and I found in that little calf, not quite six months old, well- 

 holes, as we call them, almost as big as a lead pencil. Actually 

 that little fellow had a well-hole on each side as big as some 

 cows." If I had time I would dwell upon this thing, viz : the 

 law of the milk vein. At one time I was on a farm and had a 

 conversation with a breeder of full blooded stock, and he actual- 

 ly thought that this vein took the milk from this body and run 

 it down into the udder like a cistern. Think of such dense 

 ignorance as that. Why is it that you will find dairy cattle 

 without the milk vein outside the abdominal wall and you will 

 not find it so perceptible among beef cattle? You can tell it 

 yourselves it is to escape the pressure of this great paunch so 

 as not to retard the flow of blood back to the heart and lungs. 

 I said to myself, ''I believe that little fellow will develop two on 

 each side and he will then have two more than half of the cows 



