. The Southern planter . four breeds named all produce thrifty calves tained fixed characteristics of great dairy are medium sized cattle, muscular and active,the beet of foragers, and accustomed, in their nativecountry, to subsisting on pasturage in summer andalmost exclusively upon hay and straw in the cows may be fairly said to excel the otherdairy races in earning their living under difificultieaand giving a profit upon the roughest forage. Theyare naturally hardy and admirably adapted to grazingOTer wide ranges of broken and rugged they respo
. The Southern planter . four breeds named all produce thrifty calves tained fixed characteristics of great dairy are medium sized cattle, muscular and active,the beet of foragers, and accustomed, in their nativecountry, to subsisting on pasturage in summer andalmost exclusively upon hay and straw in the cows may be fairly said to excel the otherdairy races in earning their living under difificultieaand giving a profit upon the roughest forage. Theyare naturally hardy and admirably adapted to grazingOTer wide ranges of broken and rugged they respord to good care and pay well for it,they are comparatively iudiflferent to exposure and in-clement weaher. Bred to abundant air and exercise,they soon show the ill effects of too close housing andcrowding in ill ventilated stables. No brted i^ hardierif rationally treated, and none succumbs sooner to un-sanitary conditions. The general form of the Ayrshire is the wedge-si ape—rfgarded as typical of cows of dairy excel-. AYRSHIP^ COW ■ iVtOLA DRUMMOND ■when properly treated, and, although some of themare small, they make good veal. Steers from themcan be rais»d at a profit, but not as economically asfrom other breeds. Young bulls and young females,non breeders or dairy failures (th? black sheepwhich occasionally appear in every fluck), can bereadily turned into excellent heef. But aged animals,which have terved their purpose as breeders anddairy producers, cinnot be profitably fatted. Noneof these side issues should be depended upon for income. If entitled to be called dairy cattle, the cowsshould be capable of such profit during their years ofdairy production as to render oher considerations Insignificant, except the rearing of enough selectedcalves to maintain the composition of the Ayrshire breed has been developed within acentury in the southwestern part of Scotland and at lencc— and they are short legged and fine boned. Theface is usually rather
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