POINTS OF AYRSHIRE CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1882, 29 July 1884, Page 3

POINTS OF AYRSHIRE CATTLE.

Tiik Ayrshire Agricultuml Association has adopted the following scale of points ' for Ayrshire cattle: — 1. Head shoit, forehead wide, nose fine between the muzzle and eyes, mu/zle l.uge, eyes full and livel}*, hoi us wide set on, inclining l upwards — 10 points. 2. Neck moderately P' loug and straight fiom the head to the top of the shouhler, fiee fiom loose skin on the under side, fine at its junction with the head, and enlarging symmetrically towards the shouldeis — 5 points. 3. Fore - quartets — shoulders sloping, withers fine, chest sufficiently broad and deep to ensure constitution, brisket and whole foie-quarteis light, the bow gradually increasing in depth and width backward — 5 points. 4. Back short and straight, spine well defined, especially at the shoulders ; short ribs, arched ; the body deep at the flanks — 10 points. 5. Hind-quarters long, broad and straight, hook bones wide apart, and not overlaid with fat, thighs deep and broad, tail long, blender, and set on level with the back — 8 points. 0. Udder capacious and not fleshy, hinder part broad and firmly attached to the body, the sole nearly level, and extending well fonvaid ; milk veins about udder and abdomen well developed ; the teats frgm 2. inches to 2\ inches in length, equal in thickness, the thickness being ill proportion to the length, hanging perpendicularly ; their distance apart at the sides should be equal to about onethird of the length of the vessel, and across to about one half of the breadth — 39 r points. 7. Legs short in proportion to size* the bones fine, the joints firm— 3 ipouite-. ■ 8. Skin soft and elastic, and fej^fefed with soft, close, woolly hair — 5 |||ijJiß«k'l *&> Colour red, of any shade, WsEffl&R or white, or a mixture of these, *7gach. colour being distinctly defined. 1 - Bf indie or black-and-white is not in f' favour — 3 points. 10. Average live ¥.* Wgh fc in iull mill{> aboufc 10 2 cwt .— 8 *?'„ points. 11. General appearance, includi^fing style and movement — 10 points. {' - Tpj;al, 100 points.

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