THE AYRSHIRE BULL. 95 



maxims is "Like begets like." The grazier uses like 

 in male and female, and gets like. The dairyman 

 often uses one form of animal in the female, the form 

 typical for the females of the breed, a form in the male 

 animal of a dissimilar type, and expects that unlike 

 in each generation will get a uniform progeny. 



We know persons who own Jersey and Ayrshire 

 stock, who have their conception of the male animal so 

 much fashioned by the model to which a meat breed 

 should correspond, that they seek far and wide to 

 place at the head of their herd a bull conforming to 

 this foreign mould, although they esteem less valua- 

 ble the female progeny that may conform to it. 



