. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CATTLE CATTLE 3as cultural matters, it may be inferred that agricul- tural conditions in that country, at the close of the Revolutionary War, were at a low ebb. "There were no fallows, no sown grasses, no carts nor wagons and no straw yards; no roots were grown, very little straw and no hay, save the small. 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 fo
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CATTLE CATTLE 3as cultural matters, it may be inferred that agricul- tural conditions in that country, at the close of the Revolutionary War, were at a low ebb. "There were no fallows, no sown grasses, no carts nor wagons and no straw yards; no roots were grown, very little straw and no hay, save the small. 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
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