10 Report upon the Agricultural Features 



Among the representatives of English blood, Baron Magnus's 

 Shorthorns may be noticed, comprising a cow bred in Saxony 

 and a bull bred in England. A good white bull was also 

 observed, bred in England, but exhibited by Herr H. Sprengel. 

 It is worthy of remark that so few German-bred Shorthorns 

 appeared on this great occasion, and the fact may be taken as 

 indicating, that in spite of our export trade, the Shorthorn is yet 

 unknown over vast tracts of the German Empire. We must 

 defer for the present the consideration of the remaining breeds 

 •exhibited in the German section, as they formed more charac- 

 teristic features of the pastoral life of other countries. 



Austrian Cattle. 



The Austrian Empire, excluding the Hungarian kingdom, 

 contributed 559 head of cattle, including numerous examples of 

 above thirty races, some of which have ])een already noticed. 

 These were mixed or shuffled together in the greatest possible 

 confusion, so that it was impossible to obtain a good idea of the 

 various breeds. This was the more to be regretted, as the 

 Austrian section presented by far the greatest diversity of races. 

 The black-and-white Dutch cattle at once gave a character to the 

 German section of the Show ; the Hungarian oxen did the same 

 service for Hungary, while the Austrian section alone was richly 

 diversified. 



An exhaustive description of these thirty races would carry us 

 Ijeyond the legitimate limits of a Report upon the Vienna Cattle- 

 show. It will therefore be my aim to confine the following remarks 

 to what might fairly be considered as matter of observation upon 

 the show-ground ; and the reader who wishes for more detailed 

 information is referred to MM. Moll et Gayot's ' Connaissance 

 du Boeuf ' (1860), where he will find much valuable information, 

 besides illustrations of all the leading European races. 



The Austrian section was well filled, and the 559 entries 

 inight be analysed as follows : — 



Head. 



Podolian 9 Galician race. 



Murzthaler 48] 



Mariahofer 41 > Styrian race. 



Murbodenscblag o) 



Oberinnthaler 6' 



Montafuner 26 



Patzuauer 8 



Zillerthaler 3 \ Tyrolese race. 



Kemater 4/ 



Kitzbichler 5 



Tyrolese 3j 



