. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 352 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT, GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THR DAIRY COW. The general appearance of a typical dairy cow, giving milk in abundance, is angular, thin, somewhat loose-jointed and with promi- nent bones. In general it may be said that animals that remain in a fleshy condition while at the same time giving milk are in most cases not profitable dairy animals. Beef animals possess the ability of consuming the raw products of the farm and producing therefrom beef and
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 352 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT, GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THR DAIRY COW. The general appearance of a typical dairy cow, giving milk in abundance, is angular, thin, somewhat loose-jointed and with promi- nent bones. In general it may be said that animals that remain in a fleshy condition while at the same time giving milk are in most cases not profitable dairy animals. Beef animals possess the ability of consuming the raw products of the farm and producing therefrom beef and depositing this between the muscular fibres and in the con- nective tissue of the body. Dairy animals, on the other hand, possess. Fig. 1. Imp. Coinassie 11874. Test, 16 lbs. 11 oz. Butter in 7 Days. Champion Cow Island of Jersey for Five Years. Ancestor of Many of the Most Noted Animals in the Jersey Breed. the ability of making fat from the feed, but this fat, instead of being stored or deposited between the muscular fibres, is deposited in the udder and ultimately appears in the milk as butter fat. Now any animal that possesses the ability to produce butter fat and deposit it in the udder in large quantities cannot at the same time deposit the same fat between the muscular fibres; therefore, fat looking cows are not, as a rule, to be selected for dairy purposes. FORM OR CONFORMATION. Some animals possess in a remarkable degree the ability of con- suming large quantities of feed and producing therefrom large quan-. 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 Missouri. State Board of Agriculture. Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Board of Agriculture
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