Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21

Ayrshire Cattle.
This breed of cattle, according to the
Southern Planter, halls from AYR, one
of the southwestern counties of Scotland
The country is elevated and of a rolling
character and largely devoted 10 dairy
farming, its proximity to the great city
of Glasgow rendering the cost of market
ing dairy products, for which there is an
immense demand, an easy and cheap
matter. This large demand has. there
fore, caused great attention to be paid
| to the breed of cattle best fitted to meet
requirements, and the result is seen in
| the Ayrshire cow which Is the product OF
careful breeding and Improvement OF q
| breed indigenous to the county. The
elevated character of the county and its
| noTtherly situation required that the
| breed should be hardy and not too heavy
to prevent its ranging over the hill pas
| lures in search of food with ease, whilst
at the same time it was required to be
| one which would readily assimilate the
food provide d and convert it into an
abundant flow of milk. In all these re-
spects the native COW has, By careful
breeding and attention to the question
of fitness for the required purpose,
proved itself perfectly ADAPTED, and the
consequence is, that in the Ayrshire cow,
as now seen, we have an animal pre-
eminently fitted not only for the county
of Ayr, but for all other places having
something of the like characteristics of
that county, and requiring q good gen.
eral dairy COW.
Not many days ago gentleman living
up in the Panhandle of Texas told US
that the people of his region were begin
ming TO give good deal of attention to
the Ayrshire breed of cattle. In his
opinion the Ayrshire was q breed well
suited TO the needs of that section of the
state. This conversation led us into
looking up and publishing the foregoing.
Scientific knowledge.
No term in use, says Col. F. D. Cur
tbs, is SO imperfectly understood by the
masses as the above. An impression
seems to prevail to the effect that it
means only something mixed up with
Latinand Greek and therefore something
beyond the comprehension of common
people.
Science is real one of the most COM
mon things in existence. 1t Is something
for everybody. The boy or the
young, no matter what the position or
calling in life, tor science is, after all,
simply knowledge-exact knowledge
in one word, fact. Cannot boy or girl
be inspired to search for facts? A fact
found out is neutrality-suspicious. it
is none the less so because its finder is
young. We can scarcely go too far to
stimulate the ambition i'll our children to
reach out after facts. We should aid
them with papers and books. The
farmer who does not provide his son and
daughter with some agricultural periodi-
cal and papers and books, has no right to
expect of them that they will love pro-
fession upon which they will starve.
Brain starving will not fill any child with
reverence for the farm hearthstone, or
fire their hearts with determination to
protect and perpetuate the homestead. !
The more of the homestead inspiration |
we can create, the stronger will be the |
ties that bind us to the farm, our fathers |
and our country. More knowledge will |
do this, Us with it will come more COM
fort, privilege and honor. The farmers |
boy sees too little prefermeut in his |
future. What are we doing for boys |
other than our own. Do we give the !
farmers sons the places of trust, intlu-
enoe and honor? More knowledge and |
culture in our homes will lay founda-
ton for this. We must, or our ranks
will be thinner. No farmer need allow
his boys TO grow up in ignorance. Teach
them all you know; gather knowledge |
you go that you may carry it
home. There Is no profession on God s
green earth that needs more knowledge |
than farming