The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-18

POINTS OF DIFFERENCE IN TYPES.
Continuous Lines Represent Dairy Type.
Dotted Lines Represent Beef Type.
COW which mace splendid record for
herself. while the dotted lines repre-
sent beef COW of proved qualities.
The dairy cow weighed l,45O pounds,
She gave 1920 pounds of milk in two
years. which made $50 pounds of but
ter.
The beef COW weighed 1910 pounds
and could not give milk enough to sus-
tain her own calf after it was two weeks
old. Also note in the drawing the beef
COW has a very small udder. not seen
behind when viewed as in the cut; she
has the desirable straight line on the
back SO much sought after by feeders,
her lungs are large and her neck beefy;
also observe her shoulder lines and the
beefy hind leg almost straight from near
the top OF bag up to the root of the tail.
The dairy COW has small tapering
neck; her, shoulder points backward
more than the other COW; her body is
smaller in front and increases in size
toward the rear where you come to the
milk making machinery of the COW. She
has curved back, small legs and an
udder that your judgment will readily
admit is large enough to hold all the
milk she can possibly be induced to man
ufacture. And she does manufacture it
out of the food you give her, so that
another important factor is a stomach
large enough to hold great quantities of
the raw material" since she must re-
build and maintain her body, besides
filling your pals with foamy milk con-
tanning the valuable butter fat. The
milk veins" must be.large and crooked,
and freely branch out in network over
the bag.
In Fig. B We have a cross section of
the body after butchering. The beef
cow has the broad. fiat back, with great
thickness of beef in the tenderloins
along the backbone on top of the ribs,
where the highest price beef is always
found. and where it ought to grow as
abundantly as good breeding can make
1t. Her broad diameter from side to
side was actually two and one-third
inches longer than the vertical diam
eter from the back to belly.
Now note again, the dairy COW was
six inches longer in the vertical diam
eter than in her lateral diameter: and
she has the minimum of tenderloin
along the back; see her roof-shaped
back covering. so to speak, a great capa-
cious bread basket which in reality
is a vast chemical apparatus for the
manufacture of milk.
An equal surprise will be noted in the
outline transverse section of the neck.
Fig. c, which, however, not being drawn
to scale, compares the shape of neck
only, and not the size.
So you will readily discern BY this
chart that this dairy COW is a type, not a
breed. When you find one after this
type buy her, whether she be Holstein.
Shorthorn, Jersey or whatnot, the breed
makes no difference, but the type will
mean great value to you. Simply to sat-
isfy your curiosity state here that in
this particular instance the dairy COW
was a Holsteia.
The following are the points of the
dairy COW:
1. The dairy COW is a type, not a breed.
therefore look for type first of all II YOU
would profit i'll breeding mixers in the
future.
2. Large feeding capacity is next in
Importance, as it takes lots of food to
make great quantities of milk.
3. The man military organs
(a) The udder must be large enough
to hold the milk after it is manufac-
tured, and should be soft and we'll
shrunken after drawing milk (avoid a
fatty udder, large after milk is drawn.
(b) The blood circulation, especially
the milk VEINS" must be prominent.
(c) The teats should be slender and
of proper size and length to grasp easily.
do not waste time, money and patience
trying to milk a short-teated COW. as
you dry her up because you cannot get
all her milky
4. The amount of butter fat cannot
be told accurately until you put II
through the machine tester"
IN ORCHARD AND GARDEN.