THE AYRSHIRKS. 



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that it was a fortunate cross, or a succession of crosses with some 

 foreign stock, and that, probably, it was the Holderness (an old 

 variety of the short-horns great milkers,) that helped to pro- 

 duce the improved Cunningham cattle. 



We give a correct cut of a modern Ayrshire bull, of late 

 importation, drawn from life, in which will be seen more round- 

 ness and symmetry of style, than in the bulls of even twenty 

 years ago. 



Plate ]G. Ayrshire Bull. 



" In many a district, the attempt to introduce the Teeswater 

 breed, (short-horns,) or to establish a cross from it, had palpably 

 failed, for the soil and the climate suited only the hardihood of 

 the Highlander; but here was a mild climate a dairy country; 

 the Highlander was in a manner out of his place; he had 

 degenerated, and the milking properties of the Holderness, and 

 her capability of ultimately fattening, although slowly, and at 

 considerable expense, happily amalgamated with his hardihood, 

 and disposition to fatten, and there resulted a breed, bearing 

 about it the stamp of its progenitors, and, to a very considerable 

 degree, the good qualities of both. 



