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a full expansion of the lungs, the chest being rather 

 deep than broad ; the flat-sided cow is more especially 

 to be chosen as a milker. The hips should be wide, 

 rugged and high, and the pelvis (or haunches) wide and 

 large, drooping toward the tail ; the thigh long and lean 

 from hip to hock, the veins being prominent and easily 

 felt ; the legs slender, with flat bone and small, flat feet, 

 the hinder ones having good width between, to afford 

 room for the udder. A long and thin tail is a great 

 point in breeding. 



I now come to the udder, to which all former remarks 

 are secondary. This part, the reservoir of the milk, 

 should be free from hair, flexible and soft, with no tend- 

 ency to flesh ; the bag extending well forward, as level 

 as possible with the belly, and high up betv/een the 

 thighs. The feeding veins should be particularly ob- 

 served. In the heifer with the first calf they must be 

 felt for with the hand ; in this case two holes will be 

 discovered by feeling under the belly nearly in a line 

 with the navel, on each side, in good milking heifers, of 

 about the size of a sixpence. As age increases the 

 holes extend, and the veins become large and easily 

 perceived by the eye ; the larger these feeding veins 

 appear, the greater is the quantity of milk. The teats 

 should be well separated, not fat or fleshy, and not too 

 long, but sufficiently tight to retain the milk, having a 

 tendency downward — that is, to use the technical term, 

 not struttingy or pointing away from the quarters, as this 

 causes waste of milk and difficulty in milking. These 



