CATTLE, AYRSHIRE!. 
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There then were successive introductions of improved blood among 
them, the Dunlap strain of Short-IIorn about 1780, or one hundred } r cars 
ago. This breed became well established in reputation, and in the early 
part of the present century became regularly known as Ayrshire, aus?, 
vpaa widely disseminated in England. 
The above likeness is a good one of the improved c? 
shire cow. 
Mr. Aiton describes the breed in ltd improved form, 
iate in the last century, and early in this, as follows : 
