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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
The above figure is from a painting by Marsden of “Miss 
Miller,” the first-prize two-year-old heifer of the Ayr- 
shire Agricultural Association, 1858. She was bred by 
John Kilgour, near Ayr, and was purchased by Mr. 
Howard for H. H. Peters, of Southborough, Mass., by 
whom she is now owned. The figure was taken soon 
after she was imported, and, of course, shows the trim- 
ness of a heifer, rather than ' the development which be- 
longs to a cow. She has lately produced .a fine heifer 
calf, and gives promise of being a superior milker. 
It may be well to add, in this connection, the points by 
which Ayrshire cows are judged, as adopted by the Ayr- 
shire Agricultural Association, 1853. They are as fol- 
lows : 
Head short, forehead wide, nose fine between the eyes, 
muzzle moderately large, eyes full and lively; horns 
widely set on, inclining upwards, and curving slightly 
inwards. 
Neck long and straight from the head to the top of the 
shoulder ; free from loose skin on the under side, fine at 
its junction with the head, and the muscles symmetrically 
enlarging to shoulders. 
I Shoulders thin at the top, brisket light, the whole fore- 
quarters thin in front, and gradually increasing in depth 
and width backwards. 
Back short and straight; spine well defined, especially 
at the shoulders; short ribs, arched, the body deep at the 
flanks, and the milk-veins well developed. 
Pelvis long, broad, and straight ; hook bones {ilium) 
wide apart, and not much overlaid with fat; thighs deep 
and broad ; tail long and slender, and set on a level with 
the back. 
Milk Vessel [udder] capacious, and extending well for- 
ward ; hinder part broad, and firmly attached to the body ; 
the sole or the under surface nearly level. The teats 
from two to two and a half inches in length, equal in 
thickness, and hanging perpendicularly ; their distance 
apart at the sides should be equal to about one-third of 
the length of the vessel ; and across to about one-half of 
the breadth. 
Legs short, the bones fine, and the joints firm. 
Skin soft and elastic, and covered with soft, close, woOly 
hair. 
The CoZars preferred are brown, or brown and white; 
the colors being distinctly defined . — Boston Cultivator. 
RUST IN OATS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see the complaint 
of Rust in Oats and failure of crops from spring varieties is 
yet almost universal. One correspondent seems anxious 
that a remedy should be found out. Now, I have no 
remedy, except to sow the right kind of seed, which I 
have, and notified the planting public of the fact in the 
September number of your valuable paper last year. 
True my oats are a winter variety, but I have sowed them 
in the spring for two seasons past, and they not only es- 
caped the rust, but made better oats than any spring crops 
of good seasons. 
I feel free now to speak of these oats in praise without 
measure, not only because I have tested them thoroughly 
both in fall and spring sowing, for the past three seasons, 
but because I doubt not I can, by this time, array a multi- 
tude of witnesses in their favor throughout the Southern 
country. If they are a “humbug,” let those who pur- 
chased of me last fall speak out ! 
The heads of these Oats, from some cause to me un- 
known, this season are turning black ; but they are none 
the less productive, my crop this year being by far the 
best I ever raised— just as many as I want to trouble with, 
and fear I shall suffer severely in my Corn and Cotton 
crop by taking so much time to save them. The same 
bulk in the sheaf will yield half as many again seed as 
any other kind sowed about here. When sowed in full, 
poor land (as paradoxical as it may appear) is the best, 
from the fact that they grow so tall and head so heavy 
that they fall before thoroughly ripe when sowed on rich 
land. 
Now, Messrs. Editors, why complain of rusted Oats and 
failure of crops any longer when the remedy is so easy and 
ready of access'? I can supply in any reasonable quan- 
tity. Fellow planter, suffer not yourself to be humbugged 
any longer by the^ear of humbug when it w'ill cost you 
so little to test this real blessing to mankind. 
Respectfully, &c., 
P. W.- Hutcheson, Jr, 
{ Watkinsville, Ga., July, 1859. 
