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Show BREEDING STOCK FOR DAIRY Cow Should Have Large Middle and 8trong Constitution Real Good 8lre Are Rare Thing. (By PROP. W. J. KENNEDY, Iowa Station.) Sta-tion.) , In selecting dairy cattle the real test must be the scales and the Bab-cock Bab-cock tosto'r. Tho cow Is a machine to convert food Jn to milk; thus she must have a large middle and a strong constitution con-stitution to lnsuro tho best results. Sho must also havo a largo udder, largo milk wells, largo crooked milk volns and. good-sized teats. Her head should be clean and angular an-gular In appearance, with tho eyes standing out prominently. Tho neck should be rather long and lean In appearance; ap-pearance; the shoulders pointed and tho backbone rather prominent The skin should be loose' and soft to the touch. In selecting herd bulls either mature anlmala which havo already demonstrated their worth as sires or younger, anlmala from hlgh-teitlmj dams aad aire only ahould be used. The teat and aureat will always follow fol-low Vb m of a mature aire which baa aired balfera with good records. A good dalrr bull should be kept until be is tvWve or fifteen years old; U fact, aa.Iang as he U a sure sir. Real good sires are so rare that when we do find one no should dfo only of old age. All breeders of dairy catjlo should' Boeure yearly tests on each and every cow in the herd. Shorter testa do not really mean very much. It Is the cow that stays by. her Job that Is, really valuable. |