. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . still earlier. In Youatts Treatise it is mentioned, whenspeaking of the cattle of Dumfriesshire, that the poet Burns, when he occupieda farm near the city of Dumfries, not content with the Galloway breed, intro-. duced some of the west country cows, which he thought would produce moremilk. In the poets published correspondence allusion is made, in a letter datedNovember 13, 1788, -to a heifer which had been presented to him by the pro-prietor of Dunlop house as the finest quey in Ayrshire. Mrs. Dunlop, iftwill be recollected, was
. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . still earlier. In Youatts Treatise it is mentioned, whenspeaking of the cattle of Dumfriesshire, that the poet Burns, when he occupieda farm near the city of Dumfries, not content with the Galloway breed, intro-. duced some of the west country cows, which he thought would produce moremilk. In the poets published correspondence allusion is made, in a letter datedNovember 13, 1788, -to a heifer which had been presented to him by the pro-prietor of Dunlop house as the finest quey in Ayrshire. Mrs. Dunlop, iftwill be recollected, was a special friend and correspondent of the poet. As a further explanation of the preference given by Burns for the westcountry cows, it maybe mentioned that the writer, when visiting Scotland forthe purchase of Ayrshire cattle in the year 1858, had several interviews withthe poets sister, the late Mrs. Begg, of Ayr, in one of which she stated thather brother, during his occupancy of the farm of Ellisland, near Dumfries, kepi Plate XXIX. I 1 I* CMC> 3 1 I i. AYESHIEE CATTLE. 195 a dairy and made considerable of cheese. His efforts to procure the Ayrshirecows show that they had, even at that time, a high reputation for this Le Oouteur, in a paper on the Jersey or Alderney cow, published inthe Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, refers to a statementby Quayle that the Ayrshire was a cross of the Short-horn and Alderney, andadds, himself, that there is considerable affinity between the two breeds,meaning the Ayrshire and Alderney. Rawlin also says, in reference to the Ayrshire breed : It is said to be a mix-ture by bulls brought from the Island of Alderney with their own, or the oldrace of cows. Martin says : At some period or other there has evidently been a cross withthe Durham or Holderness, and perhaps, also, with the Alderney breed. Professor Low, in his Illustrations of British Quadrupeds, says : Fromall the evidence of which, in the absence
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