The Yuills' Ayrshires' began winning prizes at local fairs, and at exhibitions in Toronto and Ottawa.
[1] This began when Aaron Abel Wright, a Renfrew merchant and butter-dealer suggested the pair give a lesson at a Farmers’ Institute meeting in his hometown.
These would cover subjects such as milk handling, butter making, raising calves and winter care of chickens.
[1] When Yuill died in 1905, his farm covered 600 acres (2.4 km2), and included two large stock barns and a windmill.
He died on the farm Meadowside, the same place he had been born, and his body was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery near Almonte, Ontario.