. Public health and preventive medicine. g bull is whiter than that of a young ox, but the colour of the fatis influenced by the feeding. Ox (Fig. 71, a).—Bones slighter, crest small, muscle smooth, juicy, and 228 GENERAL SANITATK)N marbled in the young animal. I izzle thinner and smaller, inguinal canalpresent, erector muscle less broad. Cod, kidney, and subcutaneous fat plenti-ful, the last-named freely coating the shoulder. Heifers (Fig. 71, &).—A maiden heifer (or row which has had no i&lf), aheifer (or cow which has hail not more than one calf), or indeed any cowwhich has had no more than
. Public health and preventive medicine. g bull is whiter than that of a young ox, but the colour of the fatis influenced by the feeding. Ox (Fig. 71, a).—Bones slighter, crest small, muscle smooth, juicy, and 228 GENERAL SANITATK)N marbled in the young animal. I izzle thinner and smaller, inguinal canalpresent, erector muscle less broad. Cod, kidney, and subcutaneous fat plenti-ful, the last-named freely coating the shoulder. Heifers (Fig. 71, &).—A maiden heifer (or row which has had no i&lf), aheifer (or cow which has hail not more than one calf), or indeed any cowwhich has had no more than two calves, rarely appears as meat. The chief point to he noted in their carcases is that the udder consists ofa smooth, olive-shaped mass of fat, which contains less spongy tissue theyounger the animal. Old coir.—Aitch hone characteristically thin, hard, and white ; musclesdark, dry, stringy, and coarse to the touch, fat scanty and very yellowas a rule. Large pelvic cavity. Scapulae prominent, and their Ox Heifer. Bui! Fig. 71.—a, Pizzle. b, Retractor muscle, c, Aitch bone. <1, Cod fat. (c) Unfitness for Food.—Observe colour of flesh. Dark meat mayindicate inflammation, damage due to accident, or imperfect bleeding, in all ofwhich cases it is best condemned. A dark colour, combined with dryness andharshness, usually indicates that the animal has met its death by some othermeans than the pole-axe or the cartridge. Any bad odour should at once leadto the condemnation of meat, and a knife should be plunged into the fleshyparts, withdrawn and smelt. Marasmus and chronic disease of the internal organs are evidenced bypale, soft, and dropsical flesh, which oilers no firm resistance to the impactingfist. Actinomycosis is to be looked for in the lower jaw, tongue, gullet, andstomach. White nodules are very characteristic, and there may be abscessescontaining pus with the typical granules. When an animal has died ofanthrax, the blood is fluid and dark-c
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