. A treatise on milch cows, whereby the quality and quantity of milk which any cow will give may be accurately determined by observing natural marks or external indications alone; the length of time she will continue to give milk, &c. Cows; Milk; 1862. THE COW AND THE DAIRY. 13 descendants now. Dr. Hoffman more recently made an importation of choice in- dividuals of this breed to Baltimore. Mr. Randall, of New-Bedford, Mass., has, perhaps, the largest herd of Ayrshires in this country. Several were imported' into Massachusetts some years since, and our impression had been that they fail- e
. A treatise on milch cows, whereby the quality and quantity of milk which any cow will give may be accurately determined by observing natural marks or external indications alone; the length of time she will continue to give milk, &c. Cows; Milk; 1862. THE COW AND THE DAIRY. 13 descendants now. Dr. Hoffman more recently made an importation of choice in- dividuals of this breed to Baltimore. Mr. Randall, of New-Bedford, Mass., has, perhaps, the largest herd of Ayrshires in this country. Several were imported' into Massachusetts some years since, and our impression had been that they fail- ed to establish themselves in the estimation of Yankee Farmers, yet the Massa- chusetts Agricultural Society lately invested a large portion of their funds in an importation of Ayrshires and North Devons, of which an account mav be seen in the Farmers'LiBEAKY AND Journal op Agriculture, November No. page 257 of the Journal. The specimens we have seen of Ayrshires appeared to be on the model, and with a good deal of the coat of the Short-Horn ; the hair perhaps short- er, and in that, ensuiling them the better to bear wet weather. But they have the neat form of the Short-Horn only on a miniature scale when compared to them. Mr. Stevenson, our late Minister to London, who passed all his leisure time among the noblemen and gentlemen Farmers in the best agricultural districts of England and Scotland, has some superior specimens of Ayrshire Cow. Many of the Ayrshire Dairy Cows, when properly fed, will yieJd from six to. eight gallons per day during a part of the summer. The quantity varies much during the year, from one and a half to six gallons or more ; and the highest av- erage of the milk yielded by this breed is one thousand gallons per annum. It is only some of the finest Cows that will yield such a quantity as this, and from five hundred to seven hundred and fifty gallons may be calculated as the most gene- ral yearly produce. Every two and one-third gallons of mil
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