. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fig. 362. Ayrshire buU, Nether Craig Spicy Sam. amounts cut from the bogs and wastes. Under these conditions the cattle were starved in winter, being scarcely able to rise in the spring, and never were in condition fit for the ; Such were the conditions from which the hardy, useful race of Ayrshire cattle has come. Culley, who wrote a treatise on live-stock before the year 1790, does not mention the Ayrshire as one of the recognized breeds of the country. From this we may conclude that their history as a breed begins
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fig. 362. Ayrshire buU, Nether Craig Spicy Sam. amounts cut from the bogs and wastes. Under these conditions the cattle were starved in winter, being scarcely able to rise in the spring, and never were in condition fit for the ; Such were the conditions from which the hardy, useful race of Ayrshire cattle has come. Culley, who wrote a treatise on live-stock before the year 1790, does not mention the Ayrshire as one of the recognized breeds of the country. From this we may conclude that their history as a breed begins some time shortly after the first of the past century ; previ- ous to that time, they were one of the coarse varieties of cattle which formerly occupied all of the southern part of the country. The earliest recognition which they received as a breed was given by a Mr. Aiton, who published a treatise on the Dairy Husbandry of Ayrshire, in 1825. He describes them, according to Low, as being a puny, unshapely race, not superior to the cattle of the higher districts, referring, perhaps, to the West Highland or Kylo cattle. He further states that the Ayrshires, at that time, were mostly black in color, marked with white in the face, down the back and flank, and that few of the cows gave more than a gallon and a half or two gallons of milk per day when fresh. They were very small in size, so small that the average dressed weight of mature animals was but two hundred and eighty pounds. This description was written after the introduc- tion into the Ayrshire district, it is asserted, of the cattle descended from the crosses made with the Teeswater or Holderness stock from Durham, England. The Earl of Marchmont is supposed to have brought this foreign blood into Scotland be- tween 1724 and 1740. This importation of a bull and several cows was taken to the earl's estates in Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It has been thought that the Alderney (or, pre- sumably, Jersey) cross w
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