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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



machinery m assistiag them iu their field work. The success of 

 this machine, as far as Hungary is concerned, was certainly of a 

 very decided character. 



We subjoin a list of those who have received the diploma, and 

 the specified reasons why it was awarded ; and as we received 

 this document direct from the Secretary of the Hungarian 

 Society, every reliance may be placed in its authenticity and 

 accuracy. 



HONOKARY DlPLOHA AWARDED TO ENGLISH EXHI- 

 BITORS AT THE Hungarian Agricultural Show 

 HELD AT Pesth, June 6-11, 1857. 

 The undersigned judges of the Agricultural Exhibition, 

 held at Pesth, the 6-llth of June, 1857, iu the ' Koztelek> 

 (show yard) of the Hungarian Agricultural Society, in pre- 

 sence of His Imperial and Koyal Highness the Archduke 

 Albert, Governor of Hungary, and of several thousand agri- 

 culturists, do acknowledge and declare, that they have unani- 

 mously awarded the first documental acknowledgment to 



implement makers in England, for their excellent , 



and in remembrance of this Agricultural Society.— Pesth, June 

 11, 1857, Count Georg. Andrassr, President of 



the United Jury. 

 Stephen Morock, Secretary. 

 Judges : Charles Gulacsy Aloy Vay, Baron Anton Balassa, 

 Baron Anton Aorhy, Coustantin Pyioko, Edward Egan, 

 Franciscus luufield, Marsin Pohjak, Vincing Jauku. 

 Lid of English E.rlilhitors tvlio have received the Honorary 



Diploma, alphaheiicallij arranged: — 

 Messrs. Barratt, Exall, and Co., engines for horse-power. 

 „ Burgess and Key, reaping machine. 

 „ Clayton and Shuttleworth, excellent thrashing machine. 

 „ Coleman and Co, best cultivator. 

 „ Davy, Brothers, and Co., perfectly working thrashing 



machine. 

 „ Dr.iy and Co., cooking apparatus, and general excel- 

 lence of machiuerj'. 

 „ Garrett and Sons, number of interesting articles, es- 



pecially their perfect thrashing machine. 

 „ Hornsby and Soas, drill, and steam thrashing machine. 

 „ Howard, J. and F., ploughs, which at the trials proved 



to be most excellent. 

 „ Raniomes and Sims, interesting articles exhibited, es- 

 pecially for their excellent thrashing machine. 

 „ Smyth and Sons, drills. 



The live stock was not so varied and numerous as that of 

 the Vienna Show, but as far as it went it was singularly 

 diversified in character, and more marked in its peculiarities 

 than might have been expected. The cattle were evidently 

 the choicest of their kind, and the several points for which 

 they are distinguished were more strikingly developed than 

 what we had an opportunity of observing at Vienna. The flower 

 of the Hungarian breed were certainly to be seen at Pesth in 

 considerable numbers : the long and branching horns, the dark 

 and expressive eye, fringed with black hairs to protect it 

 against its numerous enemies vthe large but well-knit frame ; 

 the nearly v/hite colour of the body, shaded up at most of 

 the salient points with thin lines of black ; and its agile 

 movements— were all brought out, in the specimens at the 

 show, to their highest perfection. This fine race of cattle 

 are mostly bred on the plains of Lower Hungary, where 

 they have a comparatively free range, and feed at will upon 

 the rudest productions of nature. 



The Caaky race, so well known in Hungary, has been 

 mainly produced by breeding in-and-in ; and if others would 

 follow the same plan as Count Csaky (who imitated our Bake- 

 well, as regards his sheep), in the different parts of Europe, in 



the rearing of stock, the several races of cattle might be greatly 

 improved, both as regards flesh and milking purposes. The 

 mania for crossing, however, like most other manias, has been 

 carried to a ridiculous extent in Hungary and Austria, espe- 

 cially in the rearing of cattle and horses ; and the result, in a 

 majority of instances, is a hybrid race of animals, whose quali- 

 ties and functions are everlastingly at cross-purposes ; and 

 whose utility, either for food, or for work, or for both, is there- 

 fore greatly impaired. 



As the Hungarian oxen are principally reared for draught, 

 greater care is taken to select specimens for strength than for 

 other purposes ; indeed this is the only point considered of 

 any importance in the breed, as the animal has to do ordina- 

 rily its five years round of work before it is told off for feeding, 

 which is quite subordinate to its working properties. The 

 quality of meat, therefore, is but little studied in the stock- 

 yards of Hungary, and milk meets with but little better at- 

 tention. 



Some of the animals exhibited measured as much as 7 feet 

 round the chest, and 4 feet 8 inches along the back; and as 

 bone'is considered a leading point in |their condition, their 

 weight may be readily imagined. The finest bull in the yard 

 weighed from 120 to 160 stones of 8 lbs,, and his companioD, 

 a well-shaped cow, weighed from 90 to 130 stones. The oxen 

 of the same breed weighed from 100 to 160 and 180 stones. 

 All the auia^als were as well shaped as they possibly could be, 

 the peculiar conditions under which they were bred being 

 considered. There were but few Tyrolese, but they were 

 excellent of their kind. The Marzthaller and the various 

 Bohemian and Moravian breeds were but slightly re- 

 presented, and scarcely any one of the pure race, the majority 

 being a cross, which, in one or two instances, presented a 

 good and generous kind of beast. The moat distinguished 

 feature, I'.owever, in the cattle department, apart from the 

 Hungarian, was the contribution of the Archduke Albert, the 

 Governor of Hungary. This consisted of five beasts — a cross 

 of the pure black-and-white Daich and the Marzthalle race, 

 the former greatly predominating. The bull, five years old, 

 was of an enormous size ; but not what we should term so fine 

 in his points as a first-class animal ought to be. The rump 

 was slightly elevated, the back was not quite straight, and the 

 loin and hips, though thickly covered with flesh, were too 

 narrow to be in just proportion to other parts of its body. 

 Upon the whole, however, the breed is excellent, and appears 

 remarkably gentle and generous in its nature, and a great deal 

 more fitted for feeding purposes than any race we have yet 

 seen in the Austrian dominions. 



The horses were not numerous, either in quantity or in 

 character, being mostly the production of Hungarian peasants, 

 who follow the same rule in breeding horses as gipsies mostly 

 do in breeding donkeys: they leave them to grow up how they 

 can. The same characteristics of the majority of Hungarian 

 horses — too light in the leg, too viarrow iu the chest, too weak 

 and lanky in the loins, and too cow- houghed to have much 

 pretension to beauty of form, or strength of lireb. Yet, some 

 of these horses are remarkably hardy, will endure much, and 

 go long distances, v/ithout being eased even of their harness. 

 The most hardy of all that we have met with, are what may be 

 termed the pony race; they measure from 11 to 13 hands 

 high. 



The exhibition of sheep was as numerous and quite as ex- 

 cellent as that of Vienna. The great bulk were of the Merino 

 breed, and some few of the pure Rambouillet, which make 

 an excellent cross with thut breed, especially for improving the 

 quality of the wool. We have already remarked that sheep in 

 Hungary are mostly reared for their wool, and that their flesh is 



