740 CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



F. SUSSEX tJATTLX:. 



Sussex Jieifers. — The Sussex is — like the Aberdeenshire Poll — the " coming animal " 

 for farmers only in those districts where cattle-breeding is distinct from dairying. Bnt 

 it seems certain that it can add size and deep flesh to many herds, which are kept in 

 remote places, under the natural conditions of having ' ' to prog for oneself. " With its 

 somewhat thick (though supple) skin, hard hair, and great activity, it seems quite the 

 animal for the bush, the backwoods, or the rough land now being laid down to grass 

 because it cannot find a tenant. The portraits are capital representations of a most use- 

 ful kind of grazing stock. 



a. AYBSniRE CATTIiO;. 



Ayrshire cow Jaiie. — Mr. George Ferme's Jane was the iirst prize Ayrshire cow in class 

 5 at the Autumn Dairy Show at Islington. Jane is about 5 years old, breeder unknown. 

 She is a capital specimen of the Ayrshire breed. 



Ayrshire cow. — The portrait represents a capital dairy cow of the Ayrshire breed, and, 

 as can be seen from the engraving, a good specimen of that admirable dairy breed; she 

 yet remained undistinguished in the midst of a large class, not expressly of Ayrshire 

 cattle, but of dairy cattle of any breed or cross-breed at the Reading Show, so good a 

 representation did it give of the best dairy cattle in the country. 



