AYRSHIRE MILK. 223 



The breed of the Ayrshire cow furnishes a globule 

 interinediate in size between the Jersey and the 

 Dutch. The prominent feature of this milk is the 

 numerous granules. 



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Upon a careful examination of Ayrshire milk, we 

 find an indication of a division of the breed into two 

 classes, according as they have been bred for butter 

 or cheese purposes. When we examine the milk 

 which characterizes the type of the two classes, the 

 differences are manifest and the peculiarities are 

 readily noted ; but these two types shade into each 

 other so imperceptibly and gradually — like two 

 separate, overlapping clouds — that the division line 

 is obscured. Those cows which appear the nearest 

 to such a line may be grouped as a third class. 



The typical butter family of Aj-rshires furnishes 

 milk possessing a globule scarcely inferior to the Jer- 

 sey globule in size, yet the sizes are more varied, and 

 granules present in abundance. The skim-milk is 

 not as blue as Jersey skim-milk on account of the 

 presence of the granule. The enveh^p to the globule 

 seems tougher than in the Jersey globule, and the 



