Show COWS FOR MACHINE MILKING Farmers Should Study Herd From Standpoint of Fitness Fitness Avoid Avoid Defective Udders By PROF C. C LARSEN t South Dakota State College Dairy farmers who wish to use mIlkIng milkIng milk- milk Ing lag machines should study their herd from the standpoint of fitness for a milking machine The Tho reason why some men are successful with milking machines and others are not can be traced In part to the difference in cows When the milking machine is installed in ln stalled the owner will have better success success success suc suc- cess if he will cull out the cows that do not readily and completely give down their milk cows with uneven udder udder ud ud- ud der and placement of teats and cows with very fleshy teats Some herds may not not contain any defective cows some may contain one or two and some herds may contain several i Cows with such defective udders and I II teats should never be used as foundation foundation foundation I tion cows The heifer helter calves from the cows that milk easily by machine should be select selected d. d It Is especially important important important im im- to select a herd bull that comes from ancestors that have well-formed well mammary organs and better still to select a proved herd bull that is known to produce daughters of large symmetrical symmetrical n sal and well-placed well teats of df good quality |