Ayrshire Cattle.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1774, 21 December 1885, Page 3

Ayrshire Cattle.

V ■.'■r;ter ;n the Svdnsy Tribune, conclu ies an article on dairy stock as follows '■l ani of opinion that m this colony it will not be difficult. it take very long to overdo the deman 1 for these special dairy breeds, there being many parts of New South Wales, as well as the principal parts of Queensland where cattle men will go for the half-breede pure and simple: and once the wants of our dairying districts are supplied, there will no longer be a profitable market among the pure stud breeders for importation of dairy bulls and and cows from C!' net co ' on ' es - The same writer, referring to the importance oi puutj of breed, says "It stretches belief to the utmost to suppose that New Zealand could cave stood such a strain on its Ayrshire resources, without sending some beasts below the pure-blood standard ; and if this has been the case, there must some day be a cropping up of mongrels, whose appearance will flatly deny their Ayrshire origin,” Ayrshire cattle, large numbers of which were imported from New Zealand, formed the principal features this year in the shows at Sydney, Picton, Camden, Moss Vale, and Kiama. Only the other day there was no such animal known at the Metropolitan Exhibition.