THE GOOD POINTS OF A SHORTHORN COW.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1040, 28 May 1883, Page 2

THE GOOD POINTS OF A SHORTHORN COW.

[ Turf, Field , and Farm.'] The following may be accepted as good authority in designating the good points of a shorthorn cow :—Muzzle fine and yellowish or drab in colour ; face slightly dishing or concave ; eye full and bright ; fore-head broad ; horns, no black, except on tips, and standing wide at base, short, oval-shaped and spreading gracefully out, and then turning in with a downward inclination, or turning upward with a still further spread, of a waxy colour and somewhat darker at tips; the throat clear, without dewlap ; the ear sizeable, thin, and quickly raaning ; the neck full, setting well into the shoulders and breast, with a slight pendulous hanging of the skin (not a dewlapj just at the brisket; the shoulders nearly straight and wide at the tops, the shoulder points or neck vein wide and full ; the brisket broad, low, and projecting well forward, sometimes so much as almost to appear a deformity; the arm gracefully tapering to the knee, and below that a leg of fine bone, ending with a rounded foot; the ribs round and full, giving free pla}'to vigorous lungs, and running back well towards the hips ; the chops full the chine and back straight from the shoulders to the tail ; the hip uncommonly wide and level with the back and loin ; loin full and level ; rump wide ; the tail set on a level with the buck, small and tapering ; the thigh full and heavily flushed ; flank low and full ; the hock standing straight (as in the horse) or nearly so ; the hind leg like the fore one, clean and sinewy, and the foot small. These make up what are called the good point of a shorthorn.