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active, the cow is at that time giving a lot of milk. You can't always 

 tell by just looking at the milk veins. If they feel like rubber tuges they 

 are active, and if dry a heifer never gives milk. By feeling of these milk 

 wells to see how large these openings are, then the inference is that 

 there will be large milk veins. 



I haven't said anything about the udder particularly. The udder, as 

 I said, a cow must have a good udder to do good work. But I want to 

 say to you that more men have been fooled by a great big udder than 

 anything else. 



When a man goes out to buy a cow — and of course the man selling 

 says it is the best cow he has — and she has a great big udder and gives a 

 great big amount of milk, he thinks that is enough and looks no futher. 

 But I will look and see if she has got the machinery to fill the udder. 

 If she hasn't go the machinery to fill it, then I don't want her. Look 

 and see that the udder runs well back, so that the connection between 

 the udder and the body is long. I look to see tha she has four good tits 

 well apart. But some of the biggest producers in the country haven't 

 got symmetrical udders. Burns got from two Guernsey cows 912i4 

 pounds of butter by actual test under the supervision of the Experiment 

 Station. Lilla Ita gave 828. Of course they were cared for, but Lilla 

 Ella, the one that produced the most, had a very deficient front udder. I 

 happened to be the judge at the Wisconsin State Fair when those heifers 

 were 2 years old. Of course I gave Lilla Ella the first and Lilla Ita the 

 second. When I placed those ribbons on, I heard a man behind me say, 

 "The old man has made a mistake this time." His companion asked 

 him why, and he said he ought to have put the first ribbon on the other 

 cow. That cow's front udder was very deficient, but she had udder 

 enough to do a whole lot of business; udder enough to handle the milk 

 for 912 pounds of butter in a year, but it didn't make any difference 

 about that imperfection. If there had been anouther cow with a perfect 

 udder I would not have given her the ribbon. 



You may have the best formed cow in the world, and the best bred 

 one, but unless she is fed right, you are not going to get milk out of her. 



