JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 OF ENGLAND. 



I. — Report upon the Agricultural Features of tltc Vienna Exhi- 

 bition, 1873. By John Wrightson, Professor of Agriculture 

 in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



The following report is intended to precede an account of the agri- 

 culture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A description of the 

 domestic animals, implements, and products of that wonderful 

 dominion seems a fitting introduction to the task still before me, 

 and a study of the Agricultural features of the Vienna Exhibi- 

 tion supplies much of the necessary material. A report upon 

 objects no longer before us is apt to become somewhat tedious. 

 The subject has therefore been handled with the view of bringing 

 the true nature of the Exhibition before the reader without 

 wearying him with repetition or detail. The first pages are 

 devoted to the Live Stock Show, opened to the public on 

 May 31st, and closed on June 7th, 1873 ; next, some attention is 

 given to the Agricultural Implements, so far as they are peculiar 

 to the requirements of European agriculture as distinguished from 

 British agriculture ; and lastly, Agricultural Products are briefly 

 considered. 



Live Stock Show. 



The announcement that an International Cattle and Live 

 Stock Show would be held in Vienna in connection with the 

 great Exhibition of 1873, was received with no small interest in 

 England. Distance, difficulties connected with exportation, and 

 other reasons, however, operated to prevent a large collection of 

 English stock appearing, and, consequently, the Bi'itish section 

 of the Cattle-show was scarcely a fair illustration of the pre- 

 eminence of Britain as a stock-breeding country. 



The stock exhibited by our countrymen will be reported upon 

 in their proper position, and that they occupied the first place 



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