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Show COWS FOR MACHINE MILKING Farmers Should Study Herd From , Standpoint of Fitness Avoid Defective Udders. V(By PROF. & LAkgiiN, South Dakota Stato Collega.) Dairy farmers who wish to tise milk-, milk-, ing machines 'should study their herd from tlie standpoint of fitness for a milking machine. 1 The reason why some men are successful with milking machines and others are not can be traced in part to the difference in cows. AVhen the milking machine is installed in-stalled the owner will have better success suc-cess if he will cull out the cows that do not readily and completely give down their milk, cows with uneven udder ud-der and placement of teats and cows with very fleshy teats. Some herds may not contain any defective cows, some may contain one or two and some herds may contain several. Cows with such defective udders nnd teats should never be used as foundation founda-tion cows. The heifer calves from the cows that milk easily by machine should be selected. It is especially im-.-'" portant to select a herd bull that comes from ancestors that have well-formed mammary organs, and better still to select a proved herd bull that is known to produce daughters of large, symmetrical symmet-rical and well-placed teats of good quality. |