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presenting great breadth behind, and carried ■well up between the thigh. 
The milk veins should be full and carried well forward toward the foro 
legs. If knotted and with curves, so much the better. 
The tail is another essential point. Whatever its size at the root, it 
must be large and tapering, and have a good switch of hair. 
The chest should be broad and deep ; this shows good respiration, 
essential to feeding and health. This, however, must not be taken in the 
sense in which we view it in the blood horse. It is then one of the essen- 
tial points, necessary to fast and long continued exertion. 
In the dairy cow, especially when viewed from before, there will be no 
appearance of massiveness. On the contrary, she will give an appearance 
of delicate fineness, and will look large behind, swelling gradually from 
-behind the shoulders. She may not be closely ribbed, in fact should no<- 
Jersey Cow. 
fte close, only comparatively so. The best milkers, every where, will be 
found to be rather loosely put together between the last rib and the hips, 
Rial good milkers must be roomy in the flank. 
The hind quarters must be long from the point of the rump to the hock, 
and well tilled up ; yet tins does not mean rounded and massive in flesh ; 
on the contrary, the best milkers will bo rather lean and perhaps high 
boned. Nevertheless, the same animal, when out of milk and fat, may 
fill up, and perhaps, present a fully rounded contour, while yet possessing 
all the delicacy of points characteristic of the high bred dairy cow. 
