The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . GUERNSEY BULL SIR CHAMPION i3th 320. Bred by Thomas M. Harvey, of Pennsylvania; got by imp. SirChampion 30, dam Worthy Beauty 295. This bull is regarded asone among the best representatives of the breed in America. He isowned by I. J. Clapp, of Kenosha, and N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago,and is used jointly by both of these gentlemen at the head of theirbreeding herds. His weight at a little short of sixteen months oldwas 944 lbs. Sketched from life by Burk. (410). CHAPTER XVII. AYRSHIRE CATTLE. No better epitome of the history of the o
The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . GUERNSEY BULL SIR CHAMPION i3th 320. Bred by Thomas M. Harvey, of Pennsylvania; got by imp. SirChampion 30, dam Worthy Beauty 295. This bull is regarded asone among the best representatives of the breed in America. He isowned by I. J. Clapp, of Kenosha, and N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago,and is used jointly by both of these gentlemen at the head of theirbreeding herds. His weight at a little short of sixteen months oldwas 944 lbs. Sketched from life by Burk. (410). CHAPTER XVII. AYRSHIRE CATTLE. No better epitome of the history of the origin of the breed canbe given than the following from that most excellent work TheDomesticated Animals of Great Britain by Prof. Low: Authentic records are wanting to show by what progressivesteps the dairy breed of Ayrshire has been molded into its presentform. That it was late in arriving at the estimation in which itis now held is well known. The old breed of the country seems tohave been one of those varieties of coarse cattle, with horns of amedium length, which formerly occupied all the central mountainssouth of the Forth, and extended into the plains. Mr. Ayton, whopublished a treatise on the dairy husbandly of Ayrshire in 1825,describes them, from recollection, as having been a puny, unshapelyrace, not superior to those yet met with in many of the higher dis-tricts. They were mostly, he tells us, of a black color, markedwith white on the face, the back and the flanks, and few of thecows yielded more than
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