3iS WISCONSIN /STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(Live S. Journal, page 386). Her average daily yield has been 
eight quarts. 
E. S. Mills, Fitchburg, Mass., has a herd of Ayrshire cows, old 
and young; some old cows that have passed their best, and some 
three year old heifers, that gave an average of eight quarts a day 
for three years, some of them averaging ten quarts a day for the* 
same period. 
E. T. Mills, of Worcester county, Mass., reports to the Country 
Gentleman his herd of ten Ayrshire cows, varying from 3 to 13 
years of age, average weight 1,045 pounds, in 273 days, gave an 
average of 21 1-7 pounds of milk per day. One of said cows 
gave, during the three years, an average of 7,830 pounds per 
year, almost 22 pounds per day for three successive years. 
“ Ayrshire Lass,” 236, “ Jean Armour,” 90, “ Corslet,” 37, 
“Kitty,” 4B 117, “Daisy,” 5 B. 47 have also a high record for 
their milking qualities. 
Aiton, writing about the Ayrshire cattle, in the year 1806, says : 
“ They yield much milk, and that of an oily, butterous nature, 
and after they have yielded large quantities of milk for several 
years, they are as valuable for beef as any other breed of cows 
known ; their fat is well mixed through the whole flesh, and they 
will fatten faster than any other breed.” 
As to size, they may, by good feeding, be made of full medium 
size. I owned a bull—“ Cobden ” (196)—which weighed when 
17 months old 1,050 pounds; and “ Heather Jack,” bred by Thos. 
Irving, of Rockfield, Montreal, and purchased by me, and im¬ 
ported into this state, weighs over 1,700 pounds. 
I also own a heifer—“Dominion Girl,” (A.) 67—was calved 
April, 1871, and had a calf June 29th, 1872, and now gives more 
milk than any two matured cows that I own. 
They are a very hardy breed, easy keepers, and give a very 
even mess of milk for a long time. When I stabled my cows 
last fall, my Ayrshires gave double the amount of milk of my 
other cows. 
It is a conceded fact that the Ayrshires are the best milkers. 
No attempts have ever been made to disprove it by disinterested 
persons. 
