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hind-quarter is frequently heavy. The udder in a good 

 dairy type shows high development of form and setting. 

 This character is rather 

 uniform in the breed. 

 The color is variable, 

 through red, white and 

 brown. The prevail- 

 ing color in America 

 is red and white 

 patches, with a tend- 

 ency toward a pre- 

 dominance Of White. FIG. 49. -Ayrshire bull. 

 In disposition the 



Ayrshire is mild and kind, yet alert, active and ener- 

 getic. The evidence she gives of being full of reserve 

 force is one of her strongest characteristics. 



326. Types of Ayrshire cattle. The event which 

 served to bring the Ayrshires from their obscurity in 



America, and but for 

 which they might still 

 have been compara- 

 tively unknown, was 

 the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, held in 

 Chicago in 1893. At 

 this great World's Fair 

 two distinct types of 

 Ayrshire cattle ap- 



FIG. 50. Ayrshire cow. 



peared in competition: 

 the American or New 

 England type, which, having received no fresh infusion of 

 blood from the mother country for many years, had be- 

 come to all intents and purposes another breed, and the 



