Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . t better evidence, thesmall head and slender neck, in which they bear a striking resemblance tothem. These cattle, from which, by crosses with the native breed, thepresent improved Ayrshire arose, were first introduced on Lord March-monts estate in Berwickshire. A bull of the new stock was sold to of Sundrum ; th
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . t better evidence, thesmall head and slender neck, in which they bear a striking resemblance tothem. These cattle, from which, by crosses with the native breed, thepresent improved Ayrshire arose, were first introduced on Lord March-monts estate in Berwickshire. A bull of the new stock was sold to of Sundrum ; then Mr. Dunlop, in Cunningham, importedsome of the Dutch cattle, and their progeny was long aftenvards distin-guished by the name of the Dunlop cows. These were the first of theimproved, or stranger breed, that reached the bailleryof Orr, about the year 1767, brought to his estate of Grongar, nearKilmarnock, some fine milch cows of a larger size than any which had 737 38 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLKTE STOCK DOCTOR- been on the farm. It was not, however, until about 1780, that thisimproved breed might be said to be duly estimated, or generally estab-lished in that part of Ayrshire^ although they had begun to extend be-yond the Irvine, into About 1790, according to Mr. Alton, Mr. Fulton from Blith, carriedthem first into Carrick, and Mr. Wilson, of Kilpatrick, was the first whotook them to the southern parts of +hat district. So late as 1804, theyweie introduced on the estate of Penmore, on the Stonchar, and they are DAIRY CATTLE THE AYRSHIRES. 739 the established cattle of Ayrshire ; they are increasing in the neighbor-ing counties, and have found their way to most parts of Britain. III. The Ayrshire as a Milker. The quantity of milk yielded hy the Ayrshire cow is, considering hersize, very great. Five gallons daily, for two or three months after calv-ing, may be considered as not more than an average quantity. Threegallons daily will be given for the
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