64 OPINIONS OF THEIR WORTH. 



grass enclosures of Scotland, but especially of such 

 districts as Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dumfriesshire, and 

 Galloway, where such herbage as best suits dairy stock 

 abounds. They are easily fed, and in. proportion to 

 bulk give more milk than any other. Already, as 

 milkers, they have supplanted to a great extent all 

 the other kinds in the county from which they take 

 their name. . . . Galloways, as beefers, are ex- 

 cellent stock, but we have known many instances 

 in which Ayrshires of the same age and size obtained 

 to a nearness kindred weights. Two-year-olds of 

 this breed will give the same price as Galloways of 

 the same age." 



In 1837 Baron Malzahn Sommerstorff, on the part 

 of an association in Pomerania, imported 185 cows, 

 and he testifies that he had found no breed that gave 

 so much milk upon moderate food as the Ayrshires/ 



At the Universal Exposition at Paris, "pre-emi- 

 nently did the Ayrshires and Alderneys stand first in 

 the first division, and the former received the impress 

 of the approval of the foreign agriculturist by the 

 rapidity with which they were bought up, a rapidity 

 unequalled by that of any other breed, excepting the 

 Bretons. ... In reference to the division of 

 the different breeds of cattle we have given above as 

 milkers, we may state it agrees with the results 

 which have been obtained at the Imperial School of 

 Grignon, from carefully conducted experiments. The 

 Ayrshires are proved there to give the largest quan- 

 tity of milk in proportion to the quantity of food 



e Alb. Cult. Jan. 1, 1844. 



