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herself. She was great in legs. I would back her 

 for a steeplechase against all other cows, even in 

 Connaught, but the racing quality is not the most 

 economic in a cow. 



When Togo, one of the best sires that ever came 

 west of the Shannon, was on sale by the Depart- 

 ment for premium purposes at the Athenry 

 Station, he was refused by seventeen bull keepers 

 in succession, the elect of Connaught farmers, and 

 he might have been thrown on the Department'! 

 hands, for his better qualities, had it not been for 

 the good sense of the official who advised Mr. 

 Byrne that he was the best sire at the station for 

 the year. His subsequent record in the shows and 

 his purchase at a large price as a superannuated 

 sire by a foreign government, make a complete 

 criticism on the Connaught judgment. 



" Betty," the chief representative of the 

 second or native line, also in the dairy herd book 

 (No. 740), is, though a daughter of Togo's, a 

 rather angular creature, but a great cow, a great 

 milker, and as sound as a dog. I have seen her 

 jumping at play with the calves in her seventh 

 year, and I have seen her, week after week, 

 milking half a hundredweight every day, on 

 nothing but her three and seven penny pasture. 

 Feed her how I will, only milk increases, and I 

 have never yet seen Betty to clothe her frame in 

 flesh as I should like to see it. On the highest fare, 

 she must be a thousand gallon cow, but I will 

 not have the highest fare for any animal I intend 

 to breed from. She is a light roan, of gentle 



