Archive image from page 72 of Dairy stock; its selection, diseases,. Dairy stock; its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed dairystockitssel00gamg Year: 1861 GUENONS SYSTEM. 55 udder on the perinaeum, it extends, in some classes, to the upper angle of the vulva, as seen at figs. 10 or 12. The surface or extent of the scutcheon denotes the milking capacity; its form and outline indicate the class —the fineness of the hair and the colour of the epider- mis, the quantity and quality of the milk. In examining scutcheons, Magne says— ' For the most part, it
Archive image from page 72 of Dairy stock; its selection, diseases,. Dairy stock; its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed dairystockitssel00gamg Year: 1861 GUENONS SYSTEM. 55 udder on the perinaeum, it extends, in some classes, to the upper angle of the vulva, as seen at figs. 10 or 12. The surface or extent of the scutcheon denotes the milking capacity; its form and outline indicate the class —the fineness of the hair and the colour of the epider- mis, the quantity and quality of the milk. In examining scutcheons, Magne says— ' For the most part, it is very easy to distinguish the scutcheons, by the upward direction of the hair which forms them. They are even sometimes sur- rounded by a line of bristly hair, turned backwards, and formed by the meeting of the upward and the downward hair. 'Still, when the hair is very fine and very short, and mixed with long hairs, when the skin is much folded, and when the udder is of large size and pressed by the thighs, it is necessary, in order to be able to distinguish the part enclosed between tlie udder and
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