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Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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deep, and pelviscapacious, and wide over the hips, with round fleshy buttocks ; tail long,and small ; legs small and short, with firm joints ; udder capacious, broadand square, stretching forward, and neither fleshv, low hung, nor loose ;the milk-veins large and prominent; teats short, all pointing outward,and at considerable distance from each other; skin thin and loose;hair soft and woolly. The head, bones, horns, and all parts of least value,small; and the general figure compact and well proportioned. IX. The Asrrshire of To-Day. The Ayrshire of to-day is noted for giving a large quantity of milk,rich in both butter and cheese ; and also for the wonderful development oithe thighs, the bulls being selected with reference to their feminine ap-pearance. They are docile in temper, hardy, sound-constitutioued ■ thebulls broad in the hook bones and hips, and full in the flanks. Of iateyears there have been a number of herds introduced into the West, and DAIRY CATTLE THE AYRSHIRES. 741
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742 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. wherever used they have been greatly liked. CaretuI selection has donemuch to keep down their fattening qualities on full feed, and it is prob-able that there is no strictly dairy cow that to-day combines so manygood qualities as the Ayrshire cow. X. Points of Ayrshire Cattle. Dr. G. Lewis Sturtevant, of Massachusetts, a scientific investigator,and careful farmer, who has given particular attention to the characteris-tics and breeding of Ayrshire cattle in New England, minutely describesthe points of Ayrshire cattle. With slight variations the same rules willapply to the Dutch or Holstcin cattle to be hereafter noticed : The usefulness of the dairy cow is in her udder, and toward the udder,its shape and its yield, all the capabilities of the cow should be directed.We may first view it as a reseiwoir for the milk. As such, it must belarge and capacious, with broad foundations, extending well behind andwell forward, with distinct a

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