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milking qualities, however, to a macli greater extent than 

 others, and a few breeders have taken special pains to keep tlie 

 dairv qualities in view. The " Sixtli Duke of Thorndale" 

 {Fir/. 74,) one of the most perfect animals of this breed in the 

 country, owned by George T. Plunkett, Esq., of Hinsdale, 

 Massachusetts, traces his pedigree through a long line of rich 

 milkers. The milking strain is concentrated in him to a re- 

 markable degree. And so it is in " Aurora Second,'''' a superior 

 cow belonging to IL G. White, Esq., of South Farminghain, 

 Massach'usetts, the head of which forms the frontispiece to this 

 chapter. For dairies wliere the production of milk for sale or 

 for the manufacture of cheese, constitutes the leading object, 

 some strains of the Shorthorn or Shorthorn grades are very use- 

 ful in regions of abundant pasturage, or where the soiling sys- 

 tem is adopted and practised. 



It is for the town dairy, or where cows are kept for the supply 

 of milk to the cities, that the grade Shorthorn is chiefly sought 

 In such cases the space the animals occupy becomes a matter 

 of some importance, and the object is to make the most of it. 

 And hence, in the London dairies, we find the old Yorkshire 

 cow, essentially a Shorthorn, and the modern improved Short 

 horn crosses are kept as the most profitable, though, in propor- 

 tion to the amount of food consumed, they may not yield any 

 more than animals of some other breed. 



The Ayrshire is another fixed and well established breed 

 which has been frequently iraport-d into this country, and has 

 exerted a marked influence upon the stock on our dairy farms. 

 Ayrshire, to which the breed owes its name, lies on the coast 

 of the Firth of Clyde, in the southwestern part of Scotland 

 The climate is milder and softer than that of most other p^irt.j 

 of the country, and well calculated for a dairy district. Here, 

 about a century ago, originated a series of improvements \u 



