The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-20
what isa Good COW
T" The Milk Makers" in April Gal
axy.

" The Milk Makers" in April Gall
axy.
What we need is a good COW that can
eat and digest good deal of food, and can
then convert it into milk, not into meat
or fat. 1t is by careful attention to and
development of some poins, that good
mixer is at last obtained. What are
these points,
l, Health, good constitution or diges,
tive apparatus, for which we require
capacious belly.
2, That the largest possible develops
ment Of the animal shall be behind,in the
udder and parts adjacent.
A good COW is likely to be wedged
shaped, of which the head is the small,
Ter end. /
Big heads, or horns, or shoulders are
not desired, because they have TO be nour-
ished by the food, But these are indise
pensable a large bag, and hind quarters
to support and minister to it, How have
they been attained, and how can they be
further, perfected BY always breading
from the COW having this development,
and from the bull descended from such
mother. More and more these projections
will increase as they descend from mother
to child. until a; last the greatest possible
milksproducer is reached, if, indeed, it be
not already. Possibly an individual COW
may have reached the limit in this direc-
ton but what we need now is the Ger,
tainty every calf will grow 10 be such q
cow. We want not that one. but that
every COW shall give thirty quarts in sum-
mer and twenty in winter, then we will
agree to stop awhile. Observe, both pas
rents should have health, and both should
have these posterior will become so fixed
as TO be continued with certainty to the
defendants.
So little attention has been given to
this matter in this country, that our great
milk-raisers say "We know nothing about
breeds we prefer the native cow" And
what is the "native 7" AS early as 1909,
it is supposed, cattle were brought from
England into Virginia in 1924 into New
England in 1925 into New York from
Holland; in 1927 into the Delaware
country from Sweden in 1881 into New
Hampshire, ect, ect. All these, coming
from various sources, have been mingled
in every possible way, and are known here
as "the natives" They have no distinc-
tive peculiarities which they transmit
but in many cases care and climate and
good food have produced from them ex-
cellent COWS, and the "red oxen" OF
Connecticut are not easily equalled, The
vast majority of our cows are of this kind,
and are poor and from these the milk.
raisers are obliged to select What do
our milkmen look for in selecting milk
giving cows
The first appearance, 10 II judge will
convey an impression n TO the health OF
constitution of the COW He will ask ,alse
a body frame, one that does not steal the
fat from the milk he will feel the skin
10 find it flexible and covered with close
scottish hair he will ask for good lung
room, a capacious belly, \ wide rump ant
a well developed bag covered with soft
hair Extending from The bug forward
he will be DESTROYS H. see prominent thu
two great veins which lose themselves il
the belly and on the back Of the udde
he will look for many well~defned branch
ing veins Then comes Guenon's milk
mirror" which is Lroad strip Of hal
running up from the uder to the vuva
which he considered The one thing need
full but which has not, in this country
been found an lnfallible test, though it
good one. If, in addition, the COW ia gen
tie, goodsiempered, you are always sur
Of a milk-maker. Look for that kind.