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Says Pat to me, " Och, n;ramachree, 



Her 'pedigree' shows dukes in dozens ; 

 ' The Royal Dane,' and ' Lady Jane,' 



And ' The Sultan,' too, are all her cousins." 

 Och ! wirrastru ! my Drimindhu ! 

 Such nonsense puts me past my patience ; 

 My darlin' cow, I miss you now, 

 Although you had no grand relations. 



My curse upon them, night and day. 



And may their grief be great as mine is, 

 That first brought o'er to Erin's shore 



These Short-horn cows and Cochin-Chinas. 

 Och ! wirrastru ! my Drimindhu I 

 From shady Barrow's banks I brought her ; 

 And oft I dream of that fair stream. 

 And her eyes, placid as its water. 



Mr. Austin exhibited -with the Kernes a heifer bred in the 

 island of Unst, the northernmost of the Shetland group. She was 

 brought over with the first importation of Kerries — is of a silver- 

 dun color, with a coat of hair resembling soft wool. She makes 

 an interesting contrast with the Kerries, differing from them stri- 

 kingly, both in color and shape, being deeper in the fore-quarter 

 and flatter in the rib than they. She has become excessively fat 

 on grass, and her flesh is laid very evenly over the body. This 

 heifer is in calf to the Kerry bull. Mountaineer. 



We should not omit to mention that Mr. Austin exhibited also a 

 fine cow, which is a cross of the Jersey and Ayrshire, and a heifer 

 two years and three months old, from this cow, by a Jersey bull, 

 with her calf. They are very fine animals. The heifer is unusu- 

 ally promising for the dairy — giving, at the time of the exhibition, 

 as stated, fifteen quarts of milk a day. 



E. R. Andrews, of West Iloxbury, exhibited the fine Ayrshire 

 bull Albert, imported by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture, in 1858. He is a beautiful animal, — one of the best 

 of the kind, in every respect, that has ever been brought to this 

 country, — and it is to be hoped that our farmers will improve the 

 opportunity afforded of crossing some of their best cows with so 

 excellent a representative of this valuable dairy breed. 



Several of the progeny of the so-called " Jamestown bull" were 

 exhibited. This animal was by a Jersey bull out of the celebrated 

 " Jamestown cow" brought from Ireland in the ship Jamestown, 

 and for several years owned by John D. Bates, of Swampscott, by 

 whom the bull in question Avas bred. The leading characteristics 

 of this cow corresponded to those of the Suffolk breed. The bull 

 was kept in Dedham several years, and many heifers of his get 

 were reared, some of which have come to milk. They generally 

 give promise of superior milking properties. Specimens of this 

 stock were exhibited on this occasion as follows : 



