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ADDRESS OF MR. LORING. 



ment of dairy-stock has received the attention of some 

 of the most intelligent men of the community. The 

 farmers of Ayrshire and Wigtonshire find in their 

 immediate neighborhood a market for fresh dairy pro- 

 ducts, and as there is no profit in feeding cattle for 

 beef alone, in that region, they have applied themselves 

 to the work of obtaining the best dairy cow, that can 

 be put together. This is the origin ot the breed of 

 cattle called Ayrshire. They are comparatively mod- 

 ern in their introduction into the list of breeds, not 

 having been mentioned at all by Parkinson, fifty years 

 ago ; and being derived as many assert, from a mix- 

 ture of Short-horn blood with the native blood of the 

 region. We know herds which have been forty years 

 at least, in being brought to their present condition. 



These animals are the model of a dairy cow. Hardy, 

 well shaped, of medium size, and giving ample return 

 for the amount of food which they consume, they are 

 wonderfully adapted to our short pastures, and to our 

 long, cold winters. Without presenting any uncommon 

 peculiarity, excepting a remarkable symmetry, they 

 would be selected at once by one of our intelligent 

 dairymen as the pattern of a cow suited to his pur- 

 poses. They are very analogous to our American 

 trotting horse, in all those points which unite to make 

 a superior animal. In their deep bodies, strong, clean 

 heads, well set, fine, and at the same time muscular 

 necks, sharp withers, sloping, prominent well set shoul- 

 ders, straight backs, broad hips, long quarters, and fine, 

 but not too small, bone ; in their size, neither small nor 

 large, they possessess all the points, as you will see, 

 of our best native horse — a resemblance which will be 



