THE DAIRY BREEDS OF CATTLE 295 
bind-quarter is frequently heavy. The udder in a good 
dairy type shows high development of form and setting. 
This character is rather 
uniform in the breed. 
The color is variable, 
through red, white and 
brown. The prevail- 
ing color in America 
is red and_ white 
patches, with a tend- 
ency toward a pre- 
dominance of white. 
In disposition the 
Ayrshire is mild and kind, yet alert, active and ener- 
getic. The evidence she gives of being full of reserve 
force is one of her strongest characteristics. 
326. Types of Ayrshire cattle. — The event which 
served to bring the Ayrshires from their obscurity in 
America, and but for 
which they might still 
. have been compara- 
we Naga tively unknown, was 
~ the World’s Columbian 
Exposition, held in 
Chicago in 1893. At 
this great World’s Fair 
two distinct types of 
Ayrshire cattle ap- 
peared in competition: 
the American or New 
England type, which, having received no fresh infusion of 
blood from the mother country for many years, had be- 
come to all intents and purposes another breed, and the 
Fic. 49.— Ayrshire bull. 
Fig. 50.— Ayrshire cow. 
