116 Animal Husbandry 
it was known as the Dunlop and the Cunningham breed. The 
origin of this breed is complex. About 1770, Teeswater cattle 
were introduced into Ayr. A little later John Dunlop, of Dunlop,” 
imported cows of large size and of uncertain ancestry, but from 
which sprang a strain known as the Dunlop breed for more than a 
century. It is stated cattle of the Channel Islands crossed with 
Fic. 49.— The Ayrshire cow. Dairy type. 
Shorthorns were early used in Ayrshire. Early in-the nineteenth 
century cattle from the Highlands, from Hereford and from Devon 
found their way to Ayrshire. The Highland and Agricultural 
Society of Scotland did much to improve the breed by awarding 
liberal premiums to cattle of merit. In 1853, the Ayrshire Agri- 
cultural Association adopted a score-card and began systematic 
efforts at improvement according to a scale of points. 
188. Description of Ayrshire cattle. — This breed is of medium 
size and possesses more of a beefy tendency than some of the 
