The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-09-18
What is a Good Cow.

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What we need is good cow that can
eat and digest 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 points, that the
good mixer is at last obtained. What
are these points 7
First: health, good constitution or
digestive apparatus, for which we require
a capacious belly.
Second: that the largest possible de-
velopment of the animal shall be behind,
in the udder aud 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 to be desired, because they have to
be nourished oy the food. But these are
indispensable; q large bag, and hind
quarters to support and minister to it.
How have they been attained, and how
can they be further perfected 7 BY al
ways breeding from the cow having this
development aud from the bull descended
from such mother. More and more
these perfections will increase as they
descend from mother to child, until at
last the greatest possible milk producer is
reached if indeed, it be not already
Possibly an individual cow may have
reached the limit in this direction but
what we need now is the certainty that
eue,y 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 both should have
these posterior developments. BY using
due care, these properties will become &C
fixed as to be continued with certainty
to their descendants. E
So little attention has, been given tc
this matter in this country, that lou,
great milk raisers say; Me kaSw moth,
ing of breeds; we prefer the nattSe cow
And what is the native COW ?" Al
early as 1903, it is supposed Ieattle were
brought from England into Virginia; ii
1924 into New Eugland in 1926 iutt
New York from Holland in 1927 into
the Delaware country from Sweden il
1881 into New Hampshire, ETC., etc
All these, coming from various sources
have been mingled in every possible way
and are known here as "natives." They
have no distinctive peculiarities which
they transmit, but in many cases care
and climate and good food have produced
from them excellent cows, and the "reG
oxen" of Connecticut are not easil,
cqualed. The vast majority of our cows
are of this kind, and are poor; and from
these the milk raisers are Obliged to sc
lect What do our milkmen look for il
selecting milk giving COWS?
The first appearance, - a judge, viii
convey an impression as to the health oil
constitution of COW. He will ask, also
bony frame one that does not steal the
Tat from the milk he will feel the ski
to fud it flexible aud covered with close
scottish hair; he will ask for good lune
room, capacious belly, a wide rulnp anc
IL well developed bag covered with sof
hair Extending from this bag forward
he will be dcsirous to see prominent tn,
two great veins which lose themselves il
the belly and on the back of the uddeI
he will look for many well defined
branching veins. Then comes Guonon
milk mirror" which is broad strip o
hair running up from the udder to tn,
vulva, which he considers the one thin!
nccdlul but which has not, in thi
country, been found an infallible test
though it is good one. II, in addition
the COW is gentle and good tempered
you are almost sure a milk maker. Lool
for that kind-" The .MM .RukerS," /,
Apra Ga'o1y.
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