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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 3

Practical men who have their minds purged from fads have rightly come to the conclusion that the only infallible tests of the dairy capacities of a cow are the milk scales and the Babcock tester and that the quality and capacity of the udder are the most important indications of such. The dairy farmer should beware of the fleshy udder, however, because, if we judge by outward appearances, such gives great promise, which it never fulfils. The perfect udder has a fine elastic skin and, when empty, hangs in loose folds; but the fleshy udder looks almost as full after milking as before. It is rather a remarkable fact that the former type of udder is as a rule, the easier of the two to milk, a copious flow being maintained with comparatively little effort on the milker's part;