. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 192. — Showing the Dairy FormViews from behind and from the side. she has made wrong use of her food, which should havebeen changed into milk or butter. The barrel, or rear portion of the body, must be large,so that in it she may store away much food while convert-ing it into milk and butter. Viewed from the side, herbody should be deeper at the hind flank than at the foreflank, giving a wedge-shaped appearance. Viewed fromabove, the dairy cow should also be wedge-shaped, havingthe narrow part at the withers on top of the shoulderblades and the wide par
. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 192. — Showing the Dairy FormViews from behind and from the side. she has made wrong use of her food, which should havebeen changed into milk or butter. The barrel, or rear portion of the body, must be large,so that in it she may store away much food while convert-ing it into milk and butter. Viewed from the side, herbody should be deeper at the hind flank than at the foreflank, giving a wedge-shaped appearance. Viewed fromabove, the dairy cow should also be wedge-shaped, havingthe narrow part at the withers on top of the shoulderblades and the wide part at the hips. 29s 296 AGRICULTURE The udder should be large and should extend well for-ward. The loose skin forming its rear portion shouldextend as high as possible. The milk veins in front ofthe udder should be large and crooked, and the milkwell where they enter the chest cavity should be Fig. 193.—A Jersey Cow The milk veins carry blood from the udder where it hashelped make milk. If they are large, it shows that muchblood flows past the udder for use in making milk. The Jersey breed. — This breed originated on the littleisland of Jersey between England and France (). The laws of that island do not permit any otherbreed to be introduced. The Jersey is now the most pop-ular dairy breed in the United States. This is because itsmilk is so rich. A Jersey cow often produces more than DAIRY CATTLE 297 400 pounds of butter in a year, and some of them haverecords of more than twice that amount. The Jersey cow has a small, angular, lean body, a fineand beautiful head with short crumpled horns, and usuallya rich, yellowish skin. Common colors among Jerseys
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