. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE AYRSHIRE 291 in a show ring alongside other breeds is conspicuous for the uniform and superior type of udder. In quality Ayrshires are only mediumj though thick heavy skins are far too abundant. The temperament is of a nervous character, this being especially true of the bulls, the cows having a reasonably mild disposition. The size of the Ayrshire is fairly uniform in the mature type. The American standard calls for the mature bull to weigh about 1500 and the cow 1000 pounds. The Scotch standard favors a cow weighing about 1050 pounds. Sturt
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. THE AYRSHIRE 291 in a show ring alongside other breeds is conspicuous for the uniform and superior type of udder. In quality Ayrshires are only mediumj though thick heavy skins are far too abundant. The temperament is of a nervous character, this being especially true of the bulls, the cows having a reasonably mild disposition. The size of the Ayrshire is fairly uniform in the mature type. The American standard calls for the mature bull to weigh about 1500 and the cow 1000 pounds. The Scotch standard favors a cow weighing about 1050 pounds. Sturtevant gives the weights of nine pure-bred aged cows in his herd, which varied from 985 to 1200 pounds. The cows in Mr. Winslow's herd from 1881 to 1887 showed an average yearly weight of from 1020 to 1102 pounds per head. The Ayrshire as a milk producer has ranked high since she first became known as a breed. In 1811 Alton wrote that probably 1200 Scotch pints (2148 quarts) of milk from each cow in the course of a year would be a fair average. In 1829 Harley, a famous dairy- man, placed the average of his herd at 12 quarts a day. One of his cows for a considerable time gave 40 quarts per day. Ayrshire milk is only average in quality, usually testing between and 4 per cent butter fat and per cent total solids. Ayrshire herd milk records of interest have been available for many years, a number of eastern breeders having long kept such statistics. In the Sturtevant herd in • Massachusetts in 1873- 1874 an average of 5475 pounds was secured from 14 cows. Mr. J. D. W. French of Massachusetts reports average herd records between 1874 and 1890 ranging from 5222 pounds to 6934 pounds per head. Between 1880 and 1889 the herd of Mr. C. M. Winslow of Vermont averaged from 5782 pounds to. Fig. 131. Knockdon Maggie, a prize-winning Ayrshire cow in Scotland, owned by Alex- ander Cross, Kilmarnock. Photograph by the author. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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