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red; 241, or 8.45 per cent, brown and white; and 194, or 6.80 

 per cent, white and red, the balance being split into various colors. 

 Secretary Winslow of the Ayrshire association in the 1902 year- 

 book reports that the color that seems to please the majority is 

 dark red and pure white, about one third white in splashes. In 

 Canada and Scotland a strong admixture of white is popular. The 

 horns are white with black tips, curve outward and upward, and 

 often, especially with cows, turn back at the tips. They fre- 

 quently appear both long and rather large. Winslow states that 



Fig. 130. Gladys Drummond 11S00, an Ayrshire cow, successfully shown by 

 J. F. Converse & Co., Woodville, New York. Photograph by the author 



the size is a matter of local taste, either fine or coarse, the Scotch 

 or Canadians preferring a larger horn than do the people in the 

 States. The body of the Ayrshire is capacious, the ribs being 

 long and well sprung, the rump usually high, broad, long, and 

 level, while the thighs and the hind quarter partake somewhat 

 of fleshiness. The depth of body often appears great, with a 

 relative shortness of leg. The udder development of the modern 

 Ayrshire presents a higher average perfection of form, in the 

 writer's opinion, than does any other breed. The type is not 

 pendent, but the rear part is carried well up behind, while the 

 fore udder has unusual extension. A row of aged Ayrshire cows 



