300 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
bulls and 39,000 cows). The North American Ayrshire 
Register first appeared in 1875, devoted to cattle that 
could be traced to importation. It was discontinued in 
1880, after four volumes had been published. Aside from 
guarding the purity of the breed, the American Ayrshire 
Breeders’ Association also conducts a yearly home dairy 
test and an advanced registry. Both of these divisions 
of the Association’s work tend to encourage the develop- 
ment of the breed by creating a greater interest among 
the members of the Association, to excel either in making 
official records, or in making attractive displays of their 
cattle at leading agricultural exhibitions. The present 
headquarters of the Association are at Brandon, Vermont. 
There was organized in 1870 the Ayrshire Importers’ 
and Breeders’ Association of Canada, and in 1889 the 
Dominion Ayrshire Breeders’ Association. In 1898, the 
former was absorbed by the latter. The Montreal Ayr- 
shire Herd-book first appeared in 1886. It was later 
united with the Dominion Ayrshire Herd-book, which 
appeared in 1884, and published as the Canadian Ayrshire 
Xecord. 
Literature. — Yearbook, published annually by the Ayrshire 
Breeders’ Association; E. L. Sturtevant, The Dairy Cow; A Mono- 
graph of the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle, Boston (1875). 
Brown Swiss Carrie. Figs. 51, 52. 
By Charles D. Nixon 
331. The Brown Swiss cattle of America are a distinct 
dairy breed. They have been generally known as a dual- 
purpose breed, but the American Brown Swiss Cattle 
Breeders’ Association has decreed it a distinct dairy breed. 
