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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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GREAT MILK MIRROR ON HOLSTEIN COW. the animal. Small when the animal is young, they continue to increasein size until after the cow has had several calves, when they come to theirfull development. This proportion between the size of the veins and the milk secreted,/s observed in all females without exception. The size of the veins andtheir varicose state being due to the blood attracted by the increasedactivity of the milk-glands, is not only the sign, but also the measure,of this activity—this connection. In fact, this connection is so close that,if the glands do not give an equal quantity of milk, the larger veins areon the side of the udder which gives the largest quantity. 2. ccs H 1°1§ P o ^ i 2 t?j
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THE JERSEYS, ALDBRNEY8 ANT* GUERNSEYS 689 **The lengtli of time during which milk is given corresponds with theactivity of the organs which supply it. Cows which give most milk aday, also give it the longest; and hence, if no special mark is perceived.,we can judge much of the duration of milk by the marks which deter-mine its quantity. It may therefore be accepted that as a rule anabundant milker may be expected to give a long continued flow of milk, In illustration of what Prof. Magne says of milk mirrors in all breeds^we give an illustration of a wonderful milk mirror on a Holstein cowcorresponding to the best escutcheon of Mr. Guenon, which he namef?the Flanders, and which as is well known is one of the Dutch breeds. XVI. Mr. Sharpless Opinion. Mr. Charles L. Sharpless of Pennsylvania, a careful breeder of Jerseycattle, and a close observer in relation to milk mirrors, holds the fbl-lowing: There is no point in judging a cow so little understood as the escutch-eon. The conclusion

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