The horse and other live stock . ximity to the vulva, as seen at 1, in cut E. Theyare very common on cows of bad milking races, but are veryrarely seen on the best milch cows. They consist of one ortwo ovals, or small bands of up-giow-ing hair, and serve to indicate thecontinuance of the flow of milk. Theperiod is short, in proportion as thetufts are large. They must not beconfounded with the escutcheon proper,which is often extended up to thevulva. They are separated from it bybands of hair, more or less large, asin cut marked F. Milk-mirrors are sometimes symme-MiLK-MiBBOR [F.] trical, and s
The horse and other live stock . ximity to the vulva, as seen at 1, in cut E. Theyare very common on cows of bad milking races, but are veryrarely seen on the best milch cows. They consist of one ortwo ovals, or small bands of up-giow-ing hair, and serve to indicate thecontinuance of the flow of milk. Theperiod is short, in proportion as thetufts are large. They must not beconfounded with the escutcheon proper,which is often extended up to thevulva. They are separated from it bybands of hair, more or less large, asin cut marked F. Milk-mirrors are sometimes symme-MiLK-MiBBOR [F.] trical, and sometimes without symme- try. When there is a great difference in the extent of thetwo halves, it almost always happens that the teats on theside where the mirror is best developed give more milk thanthose of the opposite side. The left half of the mirror, itmay be remarked, is almost always the largest; and so, whenthe perinean part is folded into a square, it is on this side ofthe body that it unfolds. Of three thousand cows in. THE 67 Denmark, l)Ut a fingle one was found, whose escutcheonvaried even a little from this rule. The mirrors having a value in proportion to the spacewhich they occupy, it is of great importance to attend to allthe rows of down-growing hairs, which diminish the extentof surface, whether these tufts are in the midst of the mirror,or form indentations on its edges. These indentations, concealed in part by the folds of theskin, are sometimes seen with difficulty; but it is importantto take them into account, since in a great many cows theymaterially lessen the size of the mirror. Cows are oftenfound, whose milk-mirrors at first sight appear very large,but which are only medium milkers; and it will usually befound that lateral indentations greatly diminish the surfaceof up-growing hair. Many errors are committed in estima-ting the value of such cows, from a want of attention to thereal extent of the mirror. All the interruptions in the surfa
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