MEASUREMENTS OF DAIRY COWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

MEASUREMENTS OF DAIRY COWS.

The following if not exact, is at least novel, and we should like to hear the opinions of some of our practical dairymen on the subject. They are taken from a paper read by Mr R. E. Turnbull at the Derby Conference of the British Dairy Association :

The measurements of the head onght to he an index to those of the whole frame ; as, for instance, the length of the head ought to correspond to the distance from the hock to the front of the adder. If a cow measures 21 inches from hock to vulva this distance should be 17 to 18 inches. The length of the head onght also to be an index to the following;—l, from tips of paps to ground ; 2, between hips from centre to centre; 3, from centre of hip bone to edge of flank and to centre of rump bone; 4, from point of hock and from dewlap to ground. The following should closely correspond to half tho length of head:—l, width of eye*; 2, froi i centre of eye to fop of head and to lower sine of cheek bone; 3, from corner of eye to top of nostrils; 4, from root of horn to Up of ear; 5, from root of ear to jawbone; C, from edee of flank to centre of udder in front, and from that to tips of front paps; 7, joint circumference of horns in centre.

From top of shoulders to centre of romp bone should I>e three tinea the length of the head, and from the fop of the head to the rump bone four times the same standard, ns should also be the girth in centre when in full milk. The length of the udder between the quarters ought to equal length ami breadth of head combined. The length of head varies from 20 inches in a 10001b cow to 21 inches in one of 12-OOlbs. An old fashioned and less complicated receipt for a dairy cow is as follows She most have a good digestive apparatus or no milk. Therefore she must have a large stomach, large lungs, and heart room. Even with with these her food may run to fat, in which case a small udder is the result. This latter should extend beyond the thighs and well off behind, well forward, broad and deep, with good sized teats well apart, skm soft and thin. Add to this a good milking pedigree and she can’t be beat.

Rather a Weu-Kxowm Composer. Laudanum. “ It's, all very well,” said the gravedigger,” “to advise a young man to begin at the -bottom and work up, but in my business it ain’t practicable.” The superiority of man to nature is continually illustrated. Nature needs an Immense quantity of quills to make a goose with; but a man can make a g>xne of himself with one. The test of a man is not whether be can govern a kingdom single-handed, but whether his private life is tender and beneficent and bis wife and children happy. Julian Hawthorne. “ I should think that yon would fe*l badly about leaving this place,” said the housemaid to the departing cook. “ I don’t * I’m glad to go. I ain’t sorry to leave any of you—except the dog. Poor old Tiger, bs always washed the plates for me! ”