18 YIELD. QUANTITY. QUALITY. 



surprising that we find a breed now wholly unsurpassed 

 when the quantity and quality of their produce is con- 

 sidered with reference to their proportional size and 



Fig. 2. Ayrshire Bull "ALBERT," 

 Imported and owned by the Mass. Soc. for Promoting Agriculture. 



the food they consume. The Ayrshire cow has been 

 known to produce over ten imperial gallons of good 

 milk a day. 



A cow-feeder in Glasgow, selling fresh milk, is said 

 to have realized two hundred and fifty dollars in seven 

 months from one good cow ; and it is stated, on high 

 authority, that a dollar a day for six months of the year 

 is no uncommon income from good cows under similar 

 circumstances, and that seventy-five cents a day is be- 

 low the average. But this implies high and judicious 

 feeding, of course : the average yield, on ordinary feed, 

 would be considerably less. 



Youatt estimates the daily yield of an Ayrshire cow, 

 for the first two or three months after calving, at five 

 gallons a day, on an average ; for the next three months, 

 at three gallons ; and for the next four months, at one 

 gallon and a half. This would be 850 gallons as the 



