ayreshires

Updated: May 26, 2025

I have looked with interest and pleasure upon the crosses of your cattle and horses, and saw in it the evidence of improvement. Let your Messengers, your Morgans, your Drews, and your Eatons be mingled with each other and with new inportations; so with your Durhams, Devons, Ayreshires and your Jerseys. The limit to these experiments will be where experience shows deterioration.

Jefferson Davis - Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.