American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . the quickest method of ashes, indeed, are restored to the earth, butnot to the soil. The few square rods on whichthey lie are scarcely benefited. All the organicpart of the plant is dissipated and lost by theburning. It will be said, in justification of thepractice, that there is no market for the straw,and it is an incumbrance upon the soil, and per-haps, also, that the land is rich enough withoutit. Every farm should have a good home marketfor straw. Great use is made of a portion of itfor fodder by our best farmers, a
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . the quickest method of ashes, indeed, are restored to the earth, butnot to the soil. The few square rods on whichthey lie are scarcely benefited. All the organicpart of the plant is dissipated and lost by theburning. It will be said, in justification of thepractice, that there is no market for the straw,and it is an incumbrance upon the soil, and per-haps, also, that the land is rich enough withoutit. Every farm should have a good home marketfor straw. Great use is made of a portion of itfor fodder by our best farmers, and the manurefrom the extra stock thus kept is returned tothe soil. It is largely used for bedding, and thecattle yards are kept thickly covered with would pay better to spread it upon the soilwhere it grows, and plow it in, than to burn helps make a cheap and warm hovel forcattle, before the settler has time to build hisburn. Save the straw, for even the virginsoil will soon need it to keep up its fertility. 1868.] AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 405. Dairy Cattle—Ayrshires. It is not a great man) years since the breed-ers of Great Britain discovered a beautiful breedof cattle, having great excellences and strongcharacteristics, among the lowland Scotch, in adistrict where but a few years before, a veryundesirable nativebreed bad appears that thechief improvementsin the cattle of thedistrict of which thecounty of Ayr com-prises the principalpart, were made bythe introduction ofDutch and Short-horn blood, tpurpose of increas-ing* milk-giving andfeeding is little doubt,however, that goodbreeding and judi-cious selection havedone quite as muchas foreign blood to-wards the formationof the breed. Evenduring the past fif-teen years the Ayr-shires have changednotably, improving in form and uniformity of characteristics. Re-cent importations are an improvement upouthe old, and yet they indicate but little, if any,more rapid advance than has occurred am
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