. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Dairy Cattle 353 There are records of 27,000 and 30,000 pounds of milk a year from a single cow, yielding milk of many times her own weight. There are also recorded yields of 1200 pounds of butter-fat in a year, equivalent to about 1500 pounds of butter. With such high production, it is to be expected that the animal requires the best of feed and care, and comfortable, well lighted, sani- tary stables. Great progress has been made in recent years in the care and housing of the dairy cow. 184. Conformation of dairy cattle. — Th
. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Dairy Cattle 353 There are records of 27,000 and 30,000 pounds of milk a year from a single cow, yielding milk of many times her own weight. There are also recorded yields of 1200 pounds of butter-fat in a year, equivalent to about 1500 pounds of butter. With such high production, it is to be expected that the animal requires the best of feed and care, and comfortable, well lighted, sani- tary stables. Great progress has been made in recent years in the care and housing of the dairy cow. 184. Conformation of dairy cattle. — The larger number of dairy cows that secrete large quantities of milk have a dis- tinctive conformation, and animals possessing this are said to be of the dairy type. Two prominent features of this type are spareness of frame and a wedge-shaped body. The spare frame is not due to disease or lack of feed, but, on the con- trary, to the tend- ency of the animals to convert feed into milk and not into body fat. In a cow of good conforma- tion three wedges are present. The first is seen when the animal is viewed from the side, as shown in Fig. 141. The wedge is not formed by lack of chest depth, but by proper chest depth together with extreme depth of the rear of the barrel and largeness of the udder. The second wedge is seen when the cow is viewed from the front. The apex of the wedge is at the withers and the base at the floor of the chest. The third wedge is seen when the animal is viewed from above. The apex is at the withers and the base, from one hip point to the other. An animal having the three-wedge shape has abundant abdominal and chest 2a. Fig. 141. — Dairy cow, showiiij form: side view. e-snape. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sampson, Harry Oscar, 1879-. New York, Macmillan
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