Dairy Cows

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 90, 19 January 1893, Page 2

Dairy Cows

The Practical Farmer says :—^" IJfie^ Ijiw of judging a dairy cow is now. very, closely alied to the development of her backbone and its appendages. The cow of large dairy performance; js. qne that shows large spinal proportions and large spinal cord. , The heads of. great milking cows are always firf and bony, with large protruding ey«r and a strong joining spinal column to the head. The ribs should spring rafterl ike away from the backbone and should be far apart and so give an open expression to the barrel of the cow. At the hip the backbone should rise and give a high pelvic-arch. , This indicates a strong maternal .action, indicative of strength and|room for oflice of maternity. The long tail is ja good sign, as it tells of a continuation of the spinal process,; and the best cow has the longest and slimmest taij. The/ open flank must go with the well-de-veloped backbone and rise into, tjhe „ arching flank, so as to give extra sjtade for the udder. The beef type is tab opposite to this ; as we "want? all this sharpness and openness iri'the ttairy cow filled with beef in the other, be~ cause we want to sell the beef j ? btit'nr the other case it is milk that is wanted. , and milk, must come, ; if profitable^ f r^nir. the dairy farm. There must be strjbng 1 lungs, a big heart, a wide room for food, and then if pur breeding and hereditary, record of performance u> built upon dairy judgment, then we shall have found our true dairy cow, an animal that puts footL into milk, and not into beef that can only be secured with the butcher's knife."— Patea County Press. / ,j ; ij :