CATTLE, 865 



order, was nine hundred and seventj-six pounds. Slie was in 

 good pasture all the season and after, June 12th had tliree 

 pints of corn and cob meal and three pints of bran, and, late 

 in the season, in September, green cornstalks once a day. 



These yields of Ayrshire cows, wdiich might be multiplied, 

 show the general characteristics of the breed. In her native 

 country the Ayrshire is generally bred for the dairy and for no 

 other object, and hence the cow has attained a just and world- 

 wide reputation for this quality. Still she fats readily when 

 her usefulness is over. She is hardy and does well on short 

 and thin pastures, and so has proved herself very useful on a 

 great proportion of the farms in the Eastern States, where a 

 larger cow would not thrive. 



The Ayrshire makes a good cross with the common stock of 

 the country and with the Shorthorn. The cross with the Jersey. 

 is not to be recommended. With the Shorthorn her form be- 

 comes a little more symmetrical, while there is no risk of lessen- 

 ing the milking qualities of the offspring, if sufficient regard 

 is paid to the selection of individual animals to breed from. 

 As a breed, it probably unites, to a greater extent than any 

 other except the Brittany, the supposed incompatible qualiiies 

 of yit'lding a great deal of milk and beef in proportion to the 

 food consumed, or cost of keeping. 



The Dutcli cow was early imported into the colonies iirsL 

 established at New York and in New Jersey. It is probable 

 that, even at that early day, the milking qualities of the raw 

 were fully developed. The climate of Uolland, and the low, 

 rich, and luxuriant pasturage, so moist, succulent, and milk- 

 Droducing, naturally induced the milk -yielding capacities of 

 the stock and a large growth of the animal frame. Trans- 

 planted to our dry and warm summer climate, and to the expo- 

 sure of our long and severe winters, the animal could haa'dJy 



