Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-04-07
What isa Good Cow.

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What we need is good COW that can eat
and digest a good deal Of food, and can then
convert IT into milk, not into meat or lat It
is by careful attention to and development Of
some points, that the good mixer is at last
obtained. What are these points?
/ Health, good constitution or digestive
apparatus for which we require % capaciou,
belly.
. That the largest possible development
Of the animal shall be behind, in the uddei
and parts adjacent
A good COW is likely to be wedge shaped
Of which the head is the smaller end
Big heads, or horns or shoulders are not
desired because they have to be nourishcd by
the food But these are indispensable; a
large bag, and hind quarters to support ant
minister to it. How have they been attained
and how can they be further periectcd} BY
always breeding from the COW having this de-
yeopment and from the bull descended from
such mother. More and more these perfcc
tons will increase as they descend from moth.
or to child until at last the greatest possibl,
milk-producer is reached it, indeed it be moi
already. Possibly an individual COW may
have reached the limit in this direction; but
what we need now is the certainty that erer5
calf will grow to be such cow We want
not that one but that every COW shall give
thirty quarts in summer and twenty in winter
then we will agree to stop awhile. Observe
both parents should have health, and boil
should have these posterior developments
by using due care, these properties will be
come so fixed as to be continued with certain
ty TO the descendants
So little attention has been given to thi
matter in this country, that our great milk
raisers say We know nothing about breeds
we prefer the native cow And what is th,
"natiye cow" As early as 1909 it is sup
posed, cattle were brought from England into
Nirgnia; in 1924 into New England; il
1925 into New York from Holland in 1921
into the Delaware country from Sweden; il
1851 into New Hampshire, etc, etc. Al
these, coming from various sources, hay,
been mingled in every possible way, and arc
now known here as " natives They hay,
no distinctive peculiarites which they trans
nit but in many eases care and climate ant
good food have produced from them excellent
COWS, and the cred oxen of Connecticut ar,
not easily equalled The vast majority Of
our cows are of this kind, and are poor and
from these the mlk-raisers are obliged tC
select What do our milkmen look for in Sc.
Letting milk-giving cows?
The first appearance, to a judge, will con
vey an impression as to the health or consti
tuition Of the COW. He will ask, also, bony
frame, one that does not steal the fat from
the milk /; he will feel the skin, to find il
flexible and covered with close, scottish hair
he will ask for good lung room, capacioui
belly, wide rump and wel-deyeopcd bag
covered with soft hair. Extending from the
bag forward he will be DESTROYS to see promi.
nent the two great veins which lose themselye.
in the belly; and on the back Of the udler
he will look for many well-defned branching
veins. Then comes Guenon's milk-mirrur,'
which is a broad strip of hair running NJ
from the udder to the yulya, which he con
sidere1 the one thing needful; but which ha,
not in this country, been found an inlallibl,
test, though it is good one. II, in addition
the COW is gentle, good-tempercd, you are al
most sure Of Matchmaker. Look for thai
kind