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time, and of which the annual valuation now is 

 only six pounds. 



Polly II. 's calves are the third generation from 

 pure shorthorn sires and their female progeny, but 

 the red poll constitution is still strong in them, 

 and looks like fixing itself permanently. They 

 are all horned, and in every other outward 

 appearance they are a type of plump shorthorns, 

 built for economy in nutrition. A young bull of 

 them, " Patrician I.," is now at service with Mr. 

 McCormac, of Westport. The youngsters always 

 look well fed by the side of ordinary calves. They 

 eat what the others leave, and they are not sick in 

 their early days. At the same age, and on the 

 same treatment, they are always my best calves, 

 apart from additional values in special breeding, 

 and any heifer of them will produce a calf before 

 she is two years old if permitted. 



" The Mermaid," a fine cow, calved by a hand- 

 some half sister of Polly II., is a generation more 

 shorthorn, but she has no horns. Her calf, 

 though two generations more shorthorn than 

 Polly II., is hornless. He is the fourth generation 

 from pure shorthorn sires and the female progeny 

 of pure shorthorn sires. This brings him within a 

 generation of being pure shorthorn, but he has no 

 horns, short or long. He is a deep red, and looks 

 shorthorn in everything but his polled head, his 

 broader forehead, his bigger eye, his stronger con- 

 stitution and his plumper appearance, on a pound 

 and a half of meals in the day and his three and 

 seven penny pasture. He was born when his dam 



