Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . hire cattle, as the name implies,originated in the county of Ajv in southwestern Scot-land. Up to about 1800 there was no particular typeof cattle in this locality, but about this time dairyingbegan to be developed, particularly in the parish ofDunlop, and the more enterprising dairymen began toselect cows for dairy production from the commonstock of the country. It is supposed that the originalstock of the county of Ayr had a more or less mixedorigin, but the Ayrshire breed
Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . hire cattle, as the name implies,originated in the county of Ajv in southwestern Scot-land. Up to about 1800 there was no particular typeof cattle in this locality, but about this time dairyingbegan to be developed, particularly in the parish ofDunlop, and the more enterprising dairymen began toselect cows for dairy production from the commonstock of the country. It is supposed that the originalstock of the county of Ayr had a more or less mixedorigin, but the Ayrshire breed took on distinctivecharacters as early as 1830, and since that time hasdeveloped into one of the chief dairy breeds in Scot-land, in Canada and in the United States. Ayrshire cattle are ofmedium size, distinctlyhirger than the Jersey, anddistinctly smaller than theHolstein. They are charac-terized by extremely straightand smooth forms, withround bodies, slim necksand legs, and long, slim,upright horns. They areextremely active in disposition, and alert, and stylishin appearance. These qualities have been developed. Fig. 8. Ayrshii-e cow. 70 Milk and Its Products as fancy points by many AjTshire breeders. Theiractivity and disposition leads them to be extremely good grazers, and they are^: better suited to sparse andl^^k^ rough pasture than any other^ .^ ^w^ breed, though they respond /^ X£i^^^ / quite as well to generous treatment with respect toabundant food supply. Ayr-shire breeders have givenFig. 9. Ayrshire bull. ^^^^ attention to the form and symmetrical shape of the udder, and haveselected animals with large udders, straight and fullat the back and level on the floor, extending wellforward on the belly. The teats are cylindrical andplaced far apart, but in very many cases are too shortto be convenient. In color, the Ayrshire is any combination of lightred, red, red-brown, or dark brown with white. Thedark color in the case of some bulls is almost Ayrshire
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