. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. bout the face. They hadhigh, crooked horns with deep ringlets at the root, thick hides adhering to their bones, andfew of them yielded more than srx or eight quarts of milk a day when doing their best, orweighed when fat more than from twelve to sixteen or twenty stones avoirdupois. He subsequently says: It was impossible that these cattle, fed as they then were, couldbe of great weight, well-shaped, or yield much milk. Their only food in winter an
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. bout the face. They hadhigh, crooked horns with deep ringlets at the root, thick hides adhering to their bones, andfew of them yielded more than srx or eight quarts of milk a day when doing their best, orweighed when fat more than from twelve to sixteen or twenty stones avoirdupois. He subsequently says: It was impossible that these cattle, fed as they then were, couldbe of great weight, well-shaped, or yield much milk. Their only food in winter and springwas oat-straw, and what they could pick up in the fields, to which they were turned outalmost every day, with a mash of weak com and chaff daily, for a few days after calving; andtheir pasture in summer was of the very worst quality, and eaten so bare that the cattle werehalf starved, and had the aspect of starvelings. A wonderful change has since been made inthe condition, aspect, and qualities of the Ayrshire dairy stock. They are not now themeagre, unshapely animals they were forty years ago, but have completely changed into some-. AYKSHIRE cow. Property of Ales. M. Fulford, Bel Air, Marj-land. thing as different from what they were then, as any two breeds in the island can be from eachother. They are almost double the size, and yield about four times the quantity of milkthat the Ayrshire then yielded. They were not of any specific breed, nor uniformity ofshape or color; neither was there any fixed standard by which they could be judged. Better feeding and care, as well as judicious crossing, must have been the combinedcause of the great improvement of these cattle. The Ayrshires were first introduced intothe United States about the year 1822, but were imported in larger numbers about the year1830. They were at that time usually of a dark red or brown color, flecked with white,having black noses. Those more recently imported have seemed to be more of the Short-Hornty
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