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Britain shares with the Dexter and the Kerry in Ireland the credit 

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

 land and inferior food than any other breed in the United Kingdom. 

 In many cheese-making dairies, where no attention has been paid 

 to milk records and cows depend entirely on natural pasture during 

 the grazing season, the annual yeld of milk does not exceed 480 

 to 500 gallons, but 600 and 700 gallons are now aimed at on natural 

 food, and up to 1,000 gallons or more when rich concentrated food 

 is given to increase the flow and extend the period of lactation. 



Existence of the Breed in Australia. The Ayrshire shared with 

 the Shorthorn the distinction of being the foundation stock in the pro- 

 duction of the common commercial purpose dairy cow of Australia, 

 which now provides an indispensable supply of butter of the finest 

 texture and quality to our home market. Pure-bred herds also 

 exist in Australasia. In the southern section of the Island 

 Continent the fashionable light-coloured varieties, with gay expand- 

 ing horns, are in evidence ; while in Queesland the earlier type of 

 improved Ayrshire, dark in colour, with lower set and finer horns, 

 is preferred. 



THE KERRY AND THE DEXTER. The Kerry, including its dwarfish 

 offshoot, the Dexter, is the only remaining pure breed of cattle of 

 ancient Irish origin, out of at least four distinct sorts which remained 

 till no very distant date. 



Value for Milk Production of the Kerry. In general outline the 

 Kerry has much in common with the Jersey and the Ayrshire, and 

 conforms to the true milking type. It possesses a well-shaped and 

 capacious udder and is a milk producer of no common order, apart 

 from its capacity to live and do better than most breeds on 

 indifferent natural food. In the records of the London Dairy Show 

 it may be seen that one year eight Kerries averaged daily 36 Ib. 

 of milk yielding 3 x / 3 per cent, of butter fat; another year, twelve 

 gave 25 r / 2 Ib. of milk, with 4V 3 per cent, of fat; and a third lot 

 gave 33 x / 2 Ib. f rnilk and 3-69 of fat. The general average of 

 milk throughout has been over 3 gallons daily, while in three dif- 

 ferent years the milk of 32 cows yielded 4 f / 4 per cent, of fat. A 

 Kerry cow in breeding form should not weigh more than 900 Ib. 

 and a bull 1,000 Ib. live weight. 



THE BRITISH-HOLSTEIN. British -Holstein cattle are a remnant 

 of the Dutch breed which is numerously represented in America 

 under the name of Holstein Frisians. Before the prohibition of 

 the importation of live cattle into Great Britain except for the 



