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^- Ten Scotch pints is in no way uncommonj several cows yield 

 for some time twelve pints and sometimes thirteen or fourteen 

 pints per day. Another quality of the dairy breed of Ayrshire, 

 is that after they have yielded large quantities of milk for seve- 

 ral years, they are as valuable for beef as the Galloway cow or 

 any other breed of cows known in Scotland; they fatten as well, 

 and their beef is not inferior to any other breed of cattle in 

 Britain," (Alton.) 



Tour committee are strongly impressed in the belief from 

 the evidences before them, and the most authentic authority, 

 both at home and abroad, that this breed of cattle must be- 

 come of great value to the country. It is not to be denied 

 that some importers in this as well as in other improved 

 breeds are sometimes unfortunate in their selections, but from 

 the selections presented to us, they must regard the owners as 

 being particularly fortunate ; they certainly possessed as many 

 points of excellence for the dairy as any stock that ever came 

 under our observation, and we should think, a correct drawing 

 of many of them w^ould make a picture that would satisfy the 

 most fastidious, without attaching the parts of the one to the 

 other to make it what it should be. The farmers of this State 

 are under many obligations to the several importers in the differ- 

 ent breeds of cattle, and it is fortunate that their taste leads them 

 on in this age of progress. Unfavorable prejudices are more 

 easily impressed on our minds than favorable ones, and they 

 are as apt to prevail in the improvement of stock as in any 

 other improvement in the science of agriculture ; farmers as 

 a general thing are very conservative in their movements 

 and are apt to think the cows of our breed are good enough 

 because our folks have had the breed as long as any body can 

 remember; and see, they will say what large beautiful horns 

 they have, and then again they will say, they will live on the 

 picking from a straw stack all winter, and if they dont die in 

 calving will give milk all sunuuer. These qualities they say are 

 of the highest consideration, so let well enough alone ; l>ut with 

 all these prejudices and the tardiness in appreciating the improve- 

 ments that are yearly exhibited at our State and county societies, 

 both in stock and implements, it must be apparent they are all 



