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any other breed, and that they produce an unusual quantity of rich 
cream. 
Alice is now ten years old, has a calf by her side, and fills a 
common sized pail with milk night and morning, averaging from 
18 to 20 quarts per day. 
The editor of the Cultivator,' in speaking of Mr. Prentice's cow, 
Ayr, says — " Though of very small size, she is in shape a perfect 
model of a milch cow, and her product at the pail is remarkable, 
giving this season, on grass feed, upwards of twenty quarts of 
milk per day; the quantity having been ascertained by actual 
measurement. Considering her diminutive size, which, compared 
with most other cows, scarcely bears a greater proportion than 
that of the Shetland pony to a coach horse, we think this very 
extraordinary." 
" Mr. Phinney found that the Ayrshire cow," says Mr. Howard 
in the Cultivator, " (one of the three first imported by the Massa- 
chusetts Society in 1837,) put on trial with the best native cow 
selected from a lot of twenty, made a pound and a half more 
butter in a week, than the native, both being fed alike." 
" Our conclusion is," continues Mr. H., " from what we have 
seen of the various breeds of cattle, that if we wished to obtain a 
stock for the production of the greatest quantity of butter in pro- 
portion to the cost of keep or the food consumed, we should make 
one trial, at feast, with a selection of Ayrshires." 
While on a visit to Boston, a few years since, we had the 
pleasure of viewing the Ayrshire cows imported by Mr. Cushing, 
as well as those more recently imported by Capt. Geo. Randall, 
of New-Bedford. Being desirous of obtaining the opinion of 
Mr. Haggerston, the then manager of Mr. Cushing's farm, we 
addressed him on the subject, and the following is his reply: 
" I will with pleasure give you ray experience of the Ayrshire 
stock. As milkers they are quite equal to the best native stock I 
have ever s6en, and for years we procured the best native cows that 
could be found, without regard to price; some of which we paid 
as high as two hundred dollars, which was not for fancy, but 
was considered the actual worth of the animals for their milking 
qualities, but have found at all times of the year, when the cows 
were in full milk, the Ayrshires were the best, and whenever we 
have kept an account of milk given for a length of time from a 
native cow and an Ayrshire, the Ayrshire invariably held out the 
