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National Geographic : 1925 Dec
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THE TAURINE WORLD 701 i'hotograph from Samuel G. Gordon LOADING CATTLE AT SALAVERRY, PERU Along the west coast of South America, where large ocean-going freighters cannot come close to the shore, cattle are loaded into open boats and towed out to deep water, where a derrick hoists them on board by means of a belt slung under them from front legs to hind quarters. for the Promotion of Agriculture, in 1837. Importations in conservative numbers have been made with fair regularity since, the average for the last two decades being about 200 head per year. The story of the Ayrshire's qualities early spread throughout the northeastern part of the United States. Accustomed to gaining a liveli hood on the Scottish hills, it readily adapted itself to conditions in New England, which is to this (lay a stronghold for the breed. More than a half century ago New York farmers, learning of the hardiness and profit ableness of the Ayrshire stock to the eastward and in Canada, established herds, and that State now leads in the number of cattle of this breed, having nearly one-third of all in the country within its borders. Pennsylvania has awakened to the breed's merits and has founded many splendid herds, while in the Middle West and on the Pacific coast, wherever dairying is developing, there is an increasing demand for breeding stock. To (lay Ayrshire herds may be found upon the hillsides of every State in the Union. In 1923 a total of 7,077 American Ayrshires were purchased by breeders in 43 States, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Central America, and China. There are now registered in the Herd Books of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, the record organization of the breed formed in 1875, a total of 113,467 Ayrshires, of which 82,980 are females. An important factor in increasing the popu larity of Ayrshires in the United States is the development of Advanced Registry testing. A
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