72 ILLUSTRATED STOC3 DOCTOR. 
A cow may have large and heavy ears ; her back may not he fully 
straight from the withers to the top of the hips ; her rump may be sloping ; 
her tail may not reach the hocks ; — all these are defects — the latter a se- 
rious one — yet, if the milking organs are super-excellent it will outweigh i 
all these. 
A phenomenon may show absolute perfection in all the points : we havo 
never yet seen such an one. In judging, the essentials are to carefully 
consider each point of excellence with reference to its bearing upon the 
animal as a dairy cow. 
A high open nostril would count but little as against a poor milk vein; 
a very delicate ear, nothing as against a very superior udder. 
The Jersey, to the uncritical eye, when in full milk, is lean, scrawny, 
tnd misshapen ; are so, fat or lean, from the standpoint of a Short- Horn 
Jersey Heifer. 
or Hereford breeder. The Short-Horn, or Hereford, is a gross, lubberly 
disgusting, mountain of fat in the eyes of a Jersey breeder. 
Color, Temper, and Size. 
Do not be too particular about color ; solid colors, and black points look 
well in the show ring. The animal that will turn out well at the pail, 
that is docile and gentle, be she what color she may, so long as she ad- 
heres to the distinguishing color-marks of the race, is fbe one for the 
milking yard. 
