JUDGING THE DAIRY COW IN SCHOOLS. 
General score card for the dairy cow. 
Points. 
Perfect 
score. 
Percentage 
value. 
Student's 
score. 
Instructor': 
score. 
1. General form 
Wedge shaped, when viewed from side, top, 
and front 
Size for the breed — Jersey, 800 pounds; Guern- 
sey, 1,050 pounds; Ayrshire, 1,000 pounds; 
Holstein, 1,200 pounds 
2. Quality 
Hide— thin, mellow, pliable, and loose 
Hair— fine, soft 
Secretions — abundant, yellowish 
Flesh— muscular, free from bunchiness 
Veins— large and prominent 
Bone— fine and clean 
3. Head 
Forehead— broad between the eyes and dished 
according to breed 
Face— medium in length, clean cut in outline, 
dished below eyes 
Nostrils— large 
Muzzle — broad, but not coarse 
Jaws— wide at base, strong 
Ears — medium sized, thin, hair fine, blood 
vessels showing, secretion abundant 
Eyes — full, prominent, clear, and bright 
Horns— small at base, incurving, attached 
close together at poll 
4. Neck 
Moderately thin, of good length, nearly free 
from loose skin, neatly joined, throat clean. 
5. Forequarters 
Shoulders— withers sharp; shoulder blades 
lean 
Chest— broad and deep, well sprung foreribs; 
large heart girth; moderately full crops; 
brisket light 
Forelegs— straight, fine bone, strong 
6. Body— capacity 
Back— straight, strong, vertebras prominent. 
Ribs — long, flat, well sprung, wide apart 
Abdomen (barrel) — long, deep, broad, well 
held up; loin broad, strong and level; flanks 
low 
. Hindquarters 
Hips— wide apart, prominent 
Rump — long, wide, level 
Pin bones— widely spaced, on level with hips. 
Thighs— incurving; escutcheon broad, ex- 
tending well up on pin bones 
Tail— tapering, fine boned, long and neatly 
set on; switch, long 
Hind legs— squarely placed not sickle hocked, 
bone fine 
8. Mammary system 
Udder— large; quarters even and riot cut up 
between; extending well up behind and 
well forward in front; not fleshy; soft and 
pliable 
Teats— squarely placed; even in size; of con- 
venient size for milking; free from lumps, 
not leaky or hard to milk 
Mammary veins and wells — veins long, 
branching, tortuous, entering body well 
forward; wells large 
Total 
1.0 
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