This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...hook bones wide apart and not overlaid with fat; thkhs deep and broad, tail long, slender, and set on level with the back, Udder capacious and not fleshy, hinder part broad and firmly attached to the body, the sole nearly level and extending well forward; milk veins about udder and abdomen well ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...hook bones wide apart and not overlaid with fat; thkhs deep and broad, tail long, slender, and set on level with the back, Udder capacious and not fleshy, hinder part broad and firmly attached to the body, the sole nearly level and extending well forward; milk veins about udder and abdomen well developed; the teats from 2 in. to 2% in. in length, equal in thickness, the thickness being in proportion to the length, hanging perpendicularly; their distance apart at'the sides should be equal to about one-third of the length of the vessel, and across to about one-half of the breadth. Legs short in proportion to the size, the bones fine, the joints firm. Skin soft and elastic, and covered with soft, close, woolly hair. Colour red of any shade, brown, or white, or a mixture of these, each colour being distinctly defined. Brindle or black and white is not in favour. Average live weight in full milk about 10% cwt. The form of the Ayrshire, as Mr. Housman observes, is in strictest agreement with the generally recognised ideal of the true dairy type. It is the wedge, thin-end forward in a certain sense, but this should not be understood to mean tapering to the front so as to allow no play of vital organs. The fore legs, on the contrary, are not close together, nor is the chest too narrow, but granted sufficient space for the mainspring and other principal works of the machine, the power acts in the direction of the udder and its tributaries. In the typical dairy cow--let us call her the Ayrshire-we have no ungainly hollows and slacknesses, no rude unevennesses of outline, but head, neck, breast, and body all cleanly moulded and neat, the fore-quarters shallow, as compared with the perpendicular depth from immediately before the hips, and the top...
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Used-Acceptable. Poor ex-lib hardback. New edition (1896), revised by James Sinclair, with veterinary section revised by A. H Archer. In thick card boards; B&W illustrations. Ex university library-bookplate, stamps, etc.; owner's name on front free end paper. In a very sad state, lacking spine, with front board almost detached, & old repairs. Brown-stained page top-edge has bled a little onto top edge of pages.
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