The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-16

OF mucn LOOQ. Ia AuQlClOn, lie OOuy i
should be covered with hide that is
soft and pliable, which in turn is
covered with hair that is soft and
silky. This texture indicates power
of digestion, and, coupled with size
of barrel, insures great capacity.
Cows which are either short or shall
low of body, slab-sided or have hides
which are hard and stiff, covered with
harsh, why hair, are capable Of con-
Stunning only small amounts of food,
a large percentage of which is not
digested, assimilated and made into
milk; therefore, from the dairyman's
standpoint, there is a great waste.
By the term nervous tempara-
ment" is meant that disposition which
induces the cow or any other animal
to work diligently to accomplish a
specific purpose. This essential point
is indicated by large, bright, promi-
nent eyes set far apart, with broad,
brain power for controlling the ner-
well-dished face, indicating large
vous system.
Associated with this is a wedge
shaped body, free from all signs of
beefiness during milking periods and
rather refined, open-jointed back
bone with the vertebrae apparent to
the eye and prominent to the touch.
These appearances indicate that the
cow has coverted all the feed, except
that which is necessary for her main
tenance, into milk and butter fat.
On the other hand, the COW that is
flat in the face, narrow between the
eyes, with dull, sluggish eyes and
body covered more or less deeply with
superfluous fat, is one that has mis-
appropriated the food her master has
given her, and converted it into fat
for protecting her own body, rather
than into milk and butter-fat that
would be a source of profit.
All milk and butter-fat are made
from food consumed by the cow; this
food is digested in the abdominal re-
gion. Milk and butter-fat are manu-
featured in the udder; therefore it is
necessary for the digested food to be
transported from the digestive or
gans to the udder, in order that the
process of milk making may take
place.
This transportation of nutrients is
accomplished by their being absorbed
by the blood, carried and deposited
among the tissues of the udder. For
this reason, the greater the blood flow
through the udder, other things be-
ing equal, the greater the supply of
milk-making nutrients and the great
er the production of the cow.
Efficient blood circulation is indi-
Gated by a network of veins. on the
udder; the large milk veins or man.
mary veins, passing forward from the
udder along each side of the abdo-
men, and the largeness and numerous
ness of the milk wells or holes in the
abdomen through which these blood
vessels pass, carrying the blood on its
return to the lungs and heart for puri-
fication and to be pumped back again
All great producing cows have
large, long, crooked, branching veins
with milk wells large enough to in.
sert the thumb, varying in number
from two to four or six, and in some
instances of exceptionally productive
cows to ten or twelve. The grea
number of milk wells indicates tina
! the blood circulation is so great tina
it all cannot return through one mill
well on each side, and therefore ma
ture has been compelled to provide ad
ditional openings.
Cows with small, short, straigh
! milk veins and only two small wells
give evidence that either the bloc
I circulation is small and sluggish, o
] that the nutrients are being convey
ed to some other portion of the bod
to be converted into some produC
other than high-priced milk and but
! ter-fat.
Ability, the fifth essential point,
I determined by an udder that is Z
once large and of acceptable qualit
& and texture. To be large, the uddt
5 must be broad. Breadth of udder
& secured only where the thighs al
4 thin and curving outward, thus givin
s room for breadth.
} To be long, the udder must be a
s tached high behind" and carried f;
3 forward, with broad, even and full
5 developed quarters. Oftentimes si
8 OF udder is secured by depth, rath
3 than by length and breadth. Su,
. udders are net commendable, becau
: only small area comes into contain
with the large naa.m2ry veins at t
: junction { the body and such udde
+. being pendulent, they are the sour
. of much trouble, because when the &C
: lies down on cold surfaces the udd
is exposed and contracts garget al
: other udder diseases.
Such an udder is also inconviel
. because during the muddy season t
COW carries to the barn mud and fiji
: portion of which often finds