POINTS 195 



Brought forward . 84 



COLOUR Red of any shade, brown or those with 



white, mahogany and white, black and white, 



or white ; each colour distinctly defined. 



(Brindle markings allowed, but not desirable) 2 



COVERING Skin Of medium thickness, mellow and 



elastic . . . . . .3 



Hair Soft and fine . . . .2 



Secretions Oily, of rich brown or yellow colour . I 



6 

 STYLE Alert, vigorous, showing strong character ; 



temperament, mild .... 4 



WEIGHT at maturity from 800 to 1000 pounds . 4 



Total 100 



The points of the bull differ from those of the cow only 

 in the masculine characters, which, according to the general 

 rule, ought to be distinctly defined, although at one time 

 a feminine tendency in the appearance of the bull was 

 thought to indicate that he belonged to a good milking 

 strain. The scrotum should be white, and still more impor- 

 tant the rudimentary teats large and well apart. He 

 should come of a strain noted for milk yield ; but milking 

 record is not as yet generally recognised in the showyard 

 when awarding prizes to either males or females. His 

 weight at maturity should be 1200 to 1500 Ibs. 



The Ayrshire is unquestionably the most important 

 and the most typical example of a milking cow in the 

 British Isles. She shares with the Kerry the credit of being 

 able to yield a greater return of dairy produce on poor land 

 and inferior food than any other cow. She is essentially a 

 cheese-dairy cow, on account of the comparatively small- 

 sized butter globules of the milk. The Channel Islands 

 breeds supply, on the other hand, the true butter-dairy cows, 

 owing to the large-sized globules which the specially rich and 

 highly-coloured cream contains. In the same way the 

 milking Shorthorn is the typical cow for town dairying, for 

 the supply of large quantities of milk of moderate quality for 

 immediate domestic use, and for the accumulation of beef of 

 second quality as a by-product during the latter portion of 

 the milking period. 



