The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-06-15
NE AYasAInE As 4 DAIaY COW


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As dairy COW the AYR hire Is par
tErldarly adspted % tie Drudnei ion q
milk for the intlkman and fpr t;iele
nee as her medium size Vigorous M,
petite and easy keeping qu:lliirs
make her an economical Producer,
while her even, uniform prodrctlen
makes her a reliable supply. and the
richness OF her milk in total colds
places 1t above suspicion from city
milk inspectors, sayS the Rural New
Yorker. Her milk is particularly
adapted to transportation, as II docs
not charn or sour easily, and when
poured back and forth few times
will read ~ mix the cream back into
the milk, which will not again read
lily separate. giving It uniform
quality until the last is sold or rfed,
It has good body, is rich looking
and never Jocks blue. The milk iiscA
being eyealy balanced with casaln
and butter fat Is complete food
easily digcstcd. nutritious. and is
particularly adapted to children and
inyallds. stomachs that are weak
and unable to digest other milk, find
no trouble with Ayrrhlrc cows milk.
Until recently, in Scotland, Canada
and the United States, the effort OF
breeders Of Ayrshire cattle has been
directed toward uniformly high
standard of dairy production from
the bread as a whole, little attention
being paid to Developing the indl-
yidual superiority Of the breed in her
dairy yield. This quality of the Ayr
shire, the result Of the general breed
ing, was particularly noticeable at
tho Pan-American exposition in the
comparative dairy yield of the Ayr
shire with that Of ether dairy breeds.
That test showed the least margin of
difference between the highest and
lowest dairy yield in the Ayrshire OF
any of the breeds, showing uni
lormly high class OF COWS, none phe-
uomena.ly good, and none particular
Iy poor, but with remarkable uniform
yields. or late years the Scotch
have instituted form of test for ;wu
days, called the Derby, testing the
COW in the ring as a show COW, end
again at home as dairy COW, COM
bining the two in making the final
award. IN Canada the Canadian gov
crnment has recently instituted perl
odlcal tests of different dairy breeds
under the specific direction Of each
breed through its association, the ex-
pcnse of which is paid for by the
Canadian government Under this
management the Canadian Ayrshire
association has recently formulated
rules and regulations for governing
series Of yearly tests for Ayrshire
COWS to admit them to advanced reg
istry
In the United States there have
been a few breeders who for coed
many years kept private records Of
the amount Of milk given by the In
dlyIdual cows In their herds. but IN.
til the advent of the Babcock testcr
there was no uniform method by
which the breeder could know the
Quality of the milk, consequently
only one side of the yield from the
COWS was known. Since the expert
ment stations throughout t, United
States have, in their experimental
work, turned their attention to the
skllliul handling Of milk, the Ayr
shire breeders association have es-
tabllshed a system of home dairy
tests for the breed, carefully guarded
at home against mistakes, and Tcri-
odlcally inspected by the experiment
station where the herd is located. AT
the last annual meeting the assocla-
ton, in order to doubly guard the
work done in testing, changed tho
rules governing the tests, adopted
monthly inspection by the experiment
stations and dropped all but yearly
tests.
1t is the belief Of the Ayrshire
breeders association that while daily,
weekly and monthly tests are inter
estlng, In a way, they are misleading
as to the real value Of a COW, and the
desire OF the association is to,produce
and make public the real profit de-
rived from the COW in her normal
condition, doing or regular dairy
work Of q breedi g dairy COW. A
COW must be kept the whole year at
an expense, and Nhethcr or not she
is paying invest nent depends upon
the receipts from her for the full
time she is kept.
1t is, perhaps, too soon to predict
the future OF the youngect of the
dairy breeds but the few results wC
have obtained from official tests since
the system was inaugurated, have
raised high hops for the future
standing OF this breed in the produc-
tion Of GARY products of high Or
der with a minimum cost for pro-
durtlon.
The dairy future Of the Ayrshire
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