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THE RURAT NEW-YORKER 
January G, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SELECTING THE DAIRY BULL. 
Best Half of the Herd. 
Part II. 
Udder (28). The udder should he 
large and not fleshy. Avoid a fat ud¬ 
der above all things. If the organs of 
secretion were active it could not have 
been fat; and while there should be 
sufficient firmness to the mass to prevent 
flopping and swishing, the thin-skinned, 
elastic, silky udder is extremely desir¬ 
able. The udder should be broad, a 
condition already determined by the 
width of the hips; it should run for¬ 
ward very far; even a little space gained 
in the fore udder make an enormous 
difference in the amount of milk. The 
udder may be level when filled, or spher¬ 
ical ; but it should not be cut up between 
the teats, because this is not only ugly, 
but loses space. The rear udder should 
round out well when full and extend 
well up toward the tail. Here the 
escutcheon comes in. The width of the 
udder as it ascends at the back and 
the height of this ascent are very im¬ 
portant. When empty it should hang 
in great folds beneath the tail. The 
finest udders fill almost to the tail, and 
while holding an immense amount of 
milk, never flap, as the original pattern 
used to do. Eight points are allowed to 
teats, which should he of good length, 
uniform in size, placed squarely and 
wide apart. Much might be said about 
the practical milking qualities of teats. 
Avoid thin ones; they are harder to 
squeeze than short ones; but do not 
despair of short teats on a heifer. They 
grow wonderfully. The size of a cow’s 
udder is not an exact measure of her 
production. The best cows elaborate 
milk during milking. 
Milk veins count four points. They 
should he large, tortuous and clastic. 
This is a matter of great practical 
value. Heavy milkers may be told by 
the milk vein which increases in size 
with the amount of Mood that returns 
through it from the udder. An udder 
covered with a network of veins is a 
pretty sight—worth paying for. Mature 
Jerseys should weigh from 800 to 1,000 
pounds, that is. Jerseys six years old; 
and 10 points are given to beauty and 
apparent productiveness combined. The 
Guernsey scale also includes the color 
of the skin in the ears and about the 
root of the tail. There is no question 
that the deep orange of Guernseys and 
of many Jerseys correlates with the yel¬ 
low pigment of the milk and butter. As 
long as people demand j’ellcnv cream 
the cow with orange ears, yellow eye¬ 
lids, and golden dandruff about the tail 
is very desirable. The fine waxy horn 
and hoof seem to go with this yellow 
pigment, and while the amount of but¬ 
ter fat is wholly independent of the 
color of the milk, color and possibly 
flavor do go with the cow’s ‘‘com¬ 
plexion.” I should add that there are 
three “wedges” (triangles) observable 
in a Jersey cow: one wedge made by 
the outline of the back, the apex of 
which is the withers, and base the 
width of the hips; and the second, 
taken at the side and finding its apex 
just behind the fore legs, and its 
base a line from the lowest point of the 
full udder perpendicularly upward to 
the top of the back. The third finds its 
apex at the backbone and its base the 
width of the body at the belly line. The 
skin of a milk cow is very important. 
It should be thin and soft like a cat’s. 
A cow in perfect health will have a skin 
soft as satin and so elastic that you can 
pull it up from the body in a great hand¬ 
ful. A hard and stiff skin is a sure sign 
of poor digestion, since the secretions of 
the skin are controlled partly by the 
digestion and partly by the cow’s emo¬ 
tional condition. Jersey cows have thin 
skins in proportion to their high breed¬ 
ing and nervous organization. Other 
breeds have thicker skins; but no mat¬ 
ter what the breed softness and elastic¬ 
ity are the sign of health. 
The rihs of a cow should he well 
sprung and open. Open means that 
they are wide apart as they bow out to 
hold the vital organs, giving an open 
relaxed conformation as the Guernsey 
people have it. A milking cow is pre¬ 
eminently loose jointed. “Well sprung” 
means that they make a hoop some¬ 
thing like a barrel hoop. The valued 
“razor-backed” cow, however, will not 
sport the level back of the beef cow, and 
a well defined spine is worth much as 
a sign of milking temperament. But 
the ribs should not fall weakly away 
from the spine as a roof falls from the 
ridge-pole. The angular cow is invari¬ 
ably the willing, persistent and econom¬ 
ical milker, as years of work at the ex¬ 
periment stations amply attest. 
When you have committed the score 
card to memory and applied it care¬ 
fully to each of your cows bearing in 
mind her cream, daily weight of milk, 
and usual length of lactation, it is time 
to take it to a few neighboring herds 
and to the fairs, and try it on to the 
cattle there, with all the information 
that careful cross-questioning will elicit 
from the owners. It B astonishing how 
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have I hurried to mv own stable and 
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sadly did I observe defects that I had 
never before thought of and ho\Y low 
the beasts fell in my estimation ! That i-, 
at first. But gradually as the herd grew 
under my hand my spirits began to rise, 
and now though I hunt for faults as 
diligently as ever I am able at the same 
time to picture to myself the kind of a 
sire that will correct them. 
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