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to be pumped on its journey again. Throughout the life 

 of the cow that process continues. All cows have two of 

 these veins, one on each side. All cows have at least two 

 milk wells. Some cows have little short, straight veins the 

 size of your little finger, and little milk wells in which you 

 can just about insert the little finger. Especially good cows 

 have large milk veins the size of your wrist, and they are 

 crooked, passing back and forth across the abdomen of 

 the cow. The milk wells are large, in which you can insert 

 your thumb, showing that there is a large flow of the fluid 

 carrying an enormous amount of nutrient for the manufac- 

 ture of large quantities of milk. 



I said all cows have two of these milk wells. Some 

 cows have three or four or flve. I have counted as high 

 as thirteen of these milk wells on one cow's abdomen, which 

 was absolutely covered with a network of veins varying in 

 size from the size of your thumb to the size of your wrist. 



Someone spoke here yesterday of a cow giving thirty- 

 six thousand pounds of milk in a year. In order for her to 

 give that amount of milk there is required a tremendous 

 constitution, a tremendous capacity for handling feed, a 

 wonderfully developed nervous temperament employed in 

 gathering and digesting and assimilating this tremendous 

 amount of feed, and then there must be a very remarkable 

 flow of blood, carrying the nutrients from the digestive 

 apparatus and placing them in the udder. Were you to 

 look under such a cow, you would find that she has her 

 abdomen absolutely covered with veins to take care of 

 this tremendous flow of blood. You would probably count 

 on her abdomen, if you were careful, ten to fifteen of these 

 milk wells provided by nature for the purpose of permit- 

 ting the blood to get back to the lungs and heart for puri- 

 fication, to be pumped back again. 



I have never seen a good cow with little, short, 

 straight veins and two little milk wells. I have never seen 

 a poor cow with great large milk veins and large numerous 

 milk wells, so if these indications are present and associ- 

 ated with the other essential points, you can depend upon 

 it that productivity of your cows is quite certain. 



