Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-12
PROPOSED AYRSHIRE HERD
BOOK IN SCOTLAND.

profitable.
PROPOSED AYRSHERE HERD
BOOK I'm SCOTLAND.
The following remarks from the NorU
British Agriculterist. Edinburgh, July 16
will be read with interest: E&
eSeversI attempts have been made from
time to time to get up an Ayrshire Herd
Book in Scotland. Hitherto these attempts
have been unsuccessful, but it is not our
purpose 81 present to enter into the cause
Of failure. With the prospect Of the High
land and Ayr cultural Society's show being
held a. Stirling during the early part Of
ne, t month, we call attention to the sub.
ject with The view of the parties interested
taking it up, so that an Ayrshire Herd Book
may be soon established and successfully
carried out. In the United States there
was no difficulty in successfully establish.
ing, or apparently, in periodically publish
ing an Ayrshire Hand Book, the pedigree of
the animals imported from Scotland being
recorded and known. Some attempts have
also been made in the west of France to
publish a volume termed the ayrshire
Herd Book"
SIT is not generally known in this coun.
try that in the United States and British
and British North America good deal of
attention has for several years been bestow-
ed on the breeding of Ayrshire cattle, they
being found, from several years experience,
to be the best for dairy purposes. As evil
dence of the estimation in which they ara
held, there are .cely any ofthe numer-
Gus agricultural publications, weekly or
fortnightly, issued in America, which do
not contain notices of private les of su-
perior cattle ofthis breed, and apparently
taken to great distances by the purchasers,
which shows that they are becoming year
ly more appreciated.
"Since the very successful establishment
of cheese factories in America, the kee2iDg
of dairy stock has become much more
general than 1t was few years ago, the
proceeds of the farm in the form of dairy
produce, particularly cheese, yielding .
much higher yearly return from land, and
at much less outlay, that the growing Of
wheat.
"The New York State Agricultural Socie.
ty have recently published In their journal
an essay, entitled Ayrshire Points, by E.
l. Sturtevsnt. This essay is extracted,
and will be found In another column of this
days ISSUE We shall be surprised If it is
not read with much interest 10y the breeders
of Ayrshire stock in this country, and gen.
orally accepted as an excellent description
of the high-bred Ayrshire. Embodied In
the essay are the points of an Ayrshire COW,
as given by the Ayrshire Agricultural Asso-
citation and the New York State Agricultu-
raj Society. In America, as in Scotland
generally, what is termed the most import
ant point of all is the udder, commonly In
Scotland termed "the vessel" judges of
Ayrshires would do well to compare the
recognized points of the Ayrshire COW In
America with the points usually considered
as allsimportant in the placing of animals in
the showing in this country, at our princi-
pal exhibitions of Ayrshires in Scotland,
where, presumably, the best animals in the
country are brought together in competi-
ton.
1--WE have taken occasion more than once
to take exceptions to the awarding of the
prizes offered at our >tional aud local shows
too much Importance, We believe, being
very frequently attached TO the size and
form oftqe udder, as compared Nth SYM
metry, uniformity, and compsctness of body,
combined with quality-compsratively un-
dersiZed animals being occasionally placed
before larger, more symmetrical, and other
wise more beautiful animals. To this
cause may, in fact, be traced the circum-
stance that the most successful exhibitors
of dairy stock are not always the breeders
Of the animals that they successfully ex-
hibit.
"In examining the stock collected in
ehnW nd tho
is such and such an ANNA. q pure bred
Ayrshire? Were there well authenticated
Herd Book, reference to it would st once
settle such questions; hence, the necessity
for such an authority to maintain the breed
pure, and without any str in Of a different
and distinct breed. Other reasons will oc-
cur to the breeders of Ayrshires why meas.
ures should be adopted TO organize a sys-
tenn of recording pedigrees Of all protested
ly pure-bred Ayrshires."
Ayershire cows have proved very valuable
for dairy purposes in New York and other
States, and deserve more extended trial
in Tennessee. Already the.g utility on this
continent has added much to their conse-
quence in their native Scotland; ana we
venture to predict, in passing, that the
American get of the famous imported horse
Bonnie Scotland" (now the property of
Gen. Harding near this city,, will raise the
reputation Of his pure hood in the land Of
bis birth. When Mr.. P. Davis, of Glou-
cester, England, gave forty thousand dol
lars for blooded COW at a public sale in
New York two days since, he psid
tribute to an American Uital poUer
which very few have studied, or pretend to
understand. The science Of agricultural
is scarcely born, hut its embryo
Is not only alive and growing, but its evo-
ution on this continent is to be one of the
mighty achievements of the future. Let
American farmers prove worthy of the sd-
Vantages which God and a republican form
Of government give them, and all will be
well with our incompatible country. 1t
IS time to raise men and woTen of great
value, as well as qus1ruped farm stock. A
nation that produced Warrington and his
parents, has the elements TO give existence
o many more such.