Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . rly in the Eastern por-;ion of the Province where Scot-;ish blood predominates among;he population. The main ob-ection which has been urged in^ova Scotia against the Ayrshires that her teats are small and that!ome strains, while hardy, are notIS heavy milkers as is recent years, however, theeading Ayrshire breeders of NovaScotia have paid much more at-tention than formerly to milkproduction and to the increaseof the size of the teats of theircows. At the present time Nova Scotiahas seventy-two members in the Canadian AyrshireBreedersAsso
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . rly in the Eastern por-;ion of the Province where Scot-;ish blood predominates among;he population. The main ob-ection which has been urged in^ova Scotia against the Ayrshires that her teats are small and that!ome strains, while hardy, are notIS heavy milkers as is recent years, however, theeading Ayrshire breeders of NovaScotia have paid much more at-tention than formerly to milkproduction and to the increaseof the size of the teats of theircows. At the present time Nova Scotiahas seventy-two members in the Canadian AyrshireBreedersAssociation and there are, in addition, fifty-twofarmers who own Ayrshires. Up to date thirty-threeNova Scotia Ayrshire cows have qualified in the CanadianRecord of Performance. It is generally held that the Ayrshire was brought toNova Scotia in 1821 by Lord Dalhousie, the founder ofDalhousie University. Lord Dalhousie was the firstPresident of the Central Agricultural Society, Halifax,which organized in 1819 and was the centre of agricultural. MELVILLE CUMMING, , , of Nova Scotia Agricultural College,and Secretary of Agriculture for Nova him, more than to any other one man, i!>credit due for progress made by the livestockindustry in the Maritimes.
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