Sharp County record., 1878-09-06
LOins broad


with the hips, though | have seen seen YER, very
rood COWS with low rumps5' ouC they
have in every ease been otherwise un1
well marked. PelviS should
be wide, giving plenty OF room lot !ne
tail twist wide, but well cut up, which
in all good COWS must be the cas-? ;1 ~
Give plenty room for the udder' lniSn
fbin: the hind legs should be llttle
evoked, fine below the hook, with
GOOD sized long foot. DR., Lorlng' El
Massachusetts, says, " No co" can m Go
tbe work of a dairy that has Small,
short foot The tail should be long
and tapering, but can not find any re-
ouired length necessary. The udder
should be long and broad, well Sc! up
between the thighs, with good Slze9
teats set well apart The belly should
Gao S q little in front of the udder and rise
as It approaches the brisket, and snoulu
be large as compared with the size Oh
'HT Now, % after this general description OF
the handsome COW, we will 60 to the
points which l am called upon TO deVail
to YOU, and without which there can .S DC
1.-THE or no milk-for all gaod mixers
have them. The hair must be sott' IN
dicating a soft, elastic skin, which you
will find to be the case by taxing th9
skin in your hand, and if it be SOFT ana
nIiable like kid glove, you are safe LOT
Either milk or beef. II, on the con-
trary, the skin feels harsh and hard,
with a cracking sensation as 1t passes
ont of YOUR hand, let her or him aIonei
Won can have neither a good COW, nor an an
animal that can be fed for beet' You
never saw soft hair grow upon Such Il
skin, This is the first test:
Next pass your hand under the belly
Of the COW, and you will find the So,GalI- ,G.ai
cd "milk-yeins. They are an intalllole
indication of the good qualities of a COW
the larger the veins the better are the
indications. In a very good COW you
will sometimes find the veins branchlns
off and making four instead of two, ou'
thew always join again before reacnlng
the udder. The larger the veins, ano
the more irregular or angular they are
the more sure you are that the cow !. i
one of the first class mixers. You VIII
find two oriices in the belly OF the COW !V
where these veins enter, and they VII
he in size according to the size OF th'
veins; they should be of the same Slz'
or she is blemished COW, -,
We will now 90 back to the udder
which should be covered with soft
downv coat of hair, and in front OF !
the hair begins to turn its course oaci
between the teats. Its width IS 10 U
, examined, for the wider the belt tn
better and surer are the indications
This belt, or mirror, runs up to the PEI
T Wis, and must be examined, as the wldt
. without a break is the point in whlc
f Guenon forms his opinions as to his peS
$ cows, to which he gives the pane
+ lsTbe Flstue tnrsn;-is@ O Sare.+ylth tn
:, 5f the best cows. / never saw it fail
| the only trouble is, there are but fe,
COWS that have it in a perfect form
= There are exceptions, such as Gueno
? calls "The Bastard " and "The Bogu
, Cow" whose marks Twill here explain
The marks on "bogus COW" ar
| just the same as they are upon any o
, the classes, to all appearance, both il
escutcheon and in their milking quail
ties. They are fine mixers, as far a
quantity is concerned, for the first TIVE
!, or three months, or until they are agail
in calf. Within two or three week.
they begin to lessen in quantity an(
quality, and in a couple of months
they are worthless for the dairy. Thi,
| know not only from inquiry, but alsc
by ocular demonstration, for | have
such COW in my own dairy and have
kept her for three years, experimenting
upon her. As long as she is kept from
breeding she is as good a cow as l have
for quantity of milk, and Of fair quality
until after she gets with calf. This COW,
as said before, has all the marks of a
Flanders cow-large, knotty milk veins,
large, wide escutcheon, running wide
and full up to the pelvis; two mirrors,
large and well formed, but upon exam
ming the escutcheon closely found the
hair through the center of the es-
cutcheon a0d up the pelvis long, coarse
and briStly, different from any other
COW have in the dairy. The skin has
a lightish red appearance. What little
dandrutf there IS is dry and hard, very
much Of the road dust appearance.
have found but few first class COWS
OF the bogus kind, where they were
born so, but | have found several that
were made bogus by bad training and
careless milking.-CGpt. John G. Nor.
RS, Of SuSq~ebanna County, Pa.