DALGIG TO AYR. 28S 



Mr. Campbell, of New Cumnock, attempted to mak& 

 an Old Parr of one, but at the end of nine years it 

 bad turned quite dark, and was so completely ex- 

 hausted that it wf,s hardly eatable. 



Jane Dunlop of Stewarton is the largest dealer in 

 Ayrshire cows, and may be seen in the Glasgow mar- 

 ket every Wednesday. She will bring as many as 

 170 to a leading fair, and they are to be found in a 

 great field at Strathbungo, near Glasgow, or behind 

 the Black Bull. The May and June fairs of Buther- 

 glen are also great places with her. As a judge there 

 are few to equal her, and she does her own bus'iness, 

 driving up and down the country in her gig. The 

 business is now conducted principally by her son 

 Gabriel, and is still as extensive as ever. The 

 trade in Ayi^hires is immense, and a dealer once 

 passed 2,073 through his hands in one year, and not 

 a few of them for France, Australia, Austria, and 

 Belgium. The dealers begin the first week of Feb- 

 ruary, and go round to all the markets, Ayr, Glasgow, 

 Biggar, Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Kutherglen, Stirling, 

 Dumfries, Carluke (the largest of all on May 21), 

 and buy them as threes and fours. Before the days 

 of railways, they paid five visits in the season, but 

 now they are seldom avray. 



The English, who are not fond of black-noses but 

 of large flecks, give all prices from £8 to £18. 

 Some leading English dealers ^ill advertise the 

 colours before hand, and then make a point of getting 

 cows to correspond. Many farmers breed on pur^ 



