THE AYKSHITE COW.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1819, 4 March 1884, Page 4

THE AYKSHITE COW.

Iv an article on the value of the Ayrshire cow for general dairy purposes in the "Rural New Yorker," Professor Henry Stewart argues that, when all things are considered, she is the best. The Aryshire is a dairy cow pure and ! simple, but we are not prepared to say with Professor Stewart that she is the best dairy cow for general purposes. However, this is pait of what he has to Hay on her behalf :—": — " Without disparaging any other race or breed, I beg to be allowed to express my prefe>ence for the Ayrshire cow as a farm or dairy cow for all purposes of such uses, and to give what I believe to be the very best leasons for my preference. The fame of the Jerseys is built up upon the record of but a veiy few animals, and w hen we mention Alphea and two or three others, we come to a stop, and have to begin counting back to tiaces of those noted cows ; and when we have done we may have counted twenty or thirty, or let us be liberal, and say forty noted cows, and there arc 14,460 left out of the 15,000 Jersey cows in America which one never hears of. But we might go among the Ayshirc herds and find every one an excellent cow whose record is noteAvorthy, but whose owner keeps her for her worth to him, and is not expecting to sell her by-and-byc with all her progeny, ami put money in his pocket that way. We find the Ayrshire a handsome, well-formed, brightly colored, compact, robust cow ; stout-bodied, and promising good beef when her natural end comes ; hardy, and not requiring to be dti ven under shelter when a thunderstorm or hailstorm threatens, or when the rderty tempest of November would drive a less lobust animal indoors. Her broad, deep, long udder, capacious and well-formed, with her well-placed teats, and the copious milk vein, all evidences of a large yield of milk. He deep abdomen, straight, broad back, and rounded ribs shows that her digestive organs are well developed, and her capacity for turning out good into milk and butter is based upon a natural procliuty thereto. In short, it may bo said of the Aybhire that while she is the most popular cow for a dairy business she has the merit of possessing the highest record in her native home, for the Scotch countiy of Ayrshire contains mote than 50,000 pure-bred Ayrshire cows, while in the other parts of Scotland she is exclusively the dairy cow, and at the same time is kept in latge numbers in all the principal dairy counties in England. This fact alone speak? volumes for the character and solid reputation of the Ayrahires both in her own natne locality and in other districts where popularity is gained only by solid meiit. All I claim foi the A\ibhire cow can be proved most conclusively by abundant evidence of the very best kind. I consider that my prefoienceis wholly justified."

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