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moist air and abundant rainfall results in good pastures. 

 The milk is used mostly for cheese making. 



Importation and Distribution in America. Ayrshires 

 were brought to Canada in the early part of the nineteenth 

 century by Scotch settlers. More recently the importation 

 of breeding stock into Canada has been extensive. The first 

 importation into the United States was probably in 1837, 

 when several were brought to Massachusetts by the Society 

 for the Promotion of Agriculture, although it is claimed 

 that some were taken to Connecticut as early as 1822. These 

 importations continued at intervals for twenty or thirty years, 

 then gradually ceased on account of the serious objection 

 raised to the short teats of the imported animals. The 

 Ayrshires now known as the American type are descended 

 from these early importations and their improved de- 

 scendants. 



Within recent years a considerable number of cattle of 

 this breed have been imported into the United States. The 

 importations into Canada have also been numerous in recent 

 years, so that the Canadian animals are largely of the type 

 now called the Scotch type. This type is now the most popu- 

 lar among the American breeders also. 



The Ayrshires have never been boomed or even well 

 advertised in the United States, and their increase in popu- 

 larity has therefore been entirely on their merits. This 

 breed took part in the dairy demonstration at the Pan- 

 American Exposition in Buffalo in 1898, and made a very 

 creditable record, standing third as a breed in butter produced 

 and in net profit. The first herd book of the breed was 

 established in the United States in 1863, the Scotch Herd 

 Book began in 1878, and the Canadian in 1870. 

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