98 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



IS but eight. This examination enables one to see the 

 size of the teats and their distance apart, and to test 

 the looseness and softness of the udder skin. It is 

 marked precisely the same in bulls (see fig. 23), and 

 can be easily examined at any age between one and ten 

 months. 



Udders of all shapes hold milk, and some homely, 

 ones hold a large quantity. B, C, D and E, at a glance, 

 explain their deficiencies, both of shape, lack of capacity 

 and bad style of teats. In udder A we have the perfect 

 shape. 



Besides the front extension of the udder in the cow, 

 the vein called milk-vein, running forward on the under- 

 side of the body, should be large and irregular, and if 

 forked at the forward end, with' two holes of exit from 

 the body, so much the more evidence of the large 

 milker. If there be three holes of exit, it means the 

 largest yield. 



Many think that the mirror of the bull is of but little 

 t^ioment, so that he is a good-looker. So far is this 

 rrom being the c^-se, that a bull with a mirror like fig. 20 

 or worse will stamp his mirrors on and to that extent 

 damage his daughters, out of cows with mirrors as 

 choice as fig. 18. In this way, the daughters of some 

 of the best cows come very ordinary, while, if you use a 

 bull marked like fig. 18, he will make poor mirrors bet- 

 ter, and will improve the best. His injury or benefit 

 will be doubled according to the mirror markings under 

 his body ici front of Jiis scrotum. Hence the import- 



