94 THE AYRSHIRE BULL. 



have contributed to this. It is only in place here to 

 refer to one as having direct relation to the breeding 

 of Ayrshires, and as directing us to a knowledge of 

 what we should desire in a bull of the dairy breed. 



If we refer to the Short-horn, the Hereford, the 

 Galloway, and many other races that are acknowl- 

 edged meat breeds, and observe the type of the male 

 and the female, we find it essentially the same for 

 either sex. In the cow and in the bull there is an ap- 

 proach to one form, modified only by such differences 

 as attend upon sex. 



With many dairy breeds, perhaps with all, many 

 persons refuse to accept the principle that directs 

 the grazier, and conceive the cow should be of 

 one type, the bull of quite different type. How 

 frequently it happens at our agricultural fairs 

 that we observe a fine dairy herd of cows possessing 

 the forms that go with the possession of dairy qual- 

 ities in a high degree, headed by a bull whose out- 

 lines are those of a meat bread ! In the one sex the 

 outline is that of the keystone of an arch, in the 

 other the brick form pediment. Here is being used 

 two typical forms of distinct functions, to effect one 

 form in the female line and another in the male line. 



Consider the comparative ease with which the 

 grazier obtains a bull satisfactory to him with the dif- 

 ficulty of the dairyman to realize his idea in the bull ! 



The meat breeds were early taken in hand by mas- 

 ter breeders and were greatly improved. To these 

 men we owe most of the maxims and current knowl- 

 edge of the principles of breeding. One of these 



