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examples appeared from Mariahof and Neumarkt. They are 

 noted as milking cattle, and also fatten readily. Examples shown 

 by Princes Adolf and Adolf Joseph Schwarzenberg-, from their 

 ■¥ast estates in Bohemia, representing specimens of their stud 

 cattle, were white sweet-looking cows, with white muzzles, 

 and of moderate size. The bull (No. 539) which accompanied 

 them, although described also as " weiss," was inclined to cream 

 colour, with a black muzzle. The principal group of these cattle 

 formed part of the extensive exhibition by the Styrian Committee, 

 already noticed in connection with Miirzthaler cattle. These 

 formed a fine show of males and females. They are a uniformly- 

 ^coloured race, often white, but sometimes inclining to lighter and 

 darker degrees of fawn. The term " semmel-farbig " is generally 

 used in the catalogue, and denotes the colour of a bun, or baked 

 cake, called a " semmel." The horns and muzzle are generally 

 white, but are occasionally dark. Some authorities state that 

 the lighter-coloured cattle are the best, both as milkers and beef- 

 producers. The heads are fine, and the bulls examined were 

 almost Shorthorn-like in their docile and sweet mellowness of 

 -expression. The withers, or shoulder-tops, are rather high, the 

 chine a little low, belly somewhat paunchy, or hanging, and the 

 ridge or set-on of the tail is again rather high. Josef Daum, of 

 Wettmanstetten, near Preding, in Styria, showed a good, straight 

 bull, free from these faults. The cows are pretty and feminine- 

 looking ; show well for milk, and are quite uniform in colour, and 

 may generally be said to be white, with a few instances of fawn 

 •colour, or " semmel-farbig." 



I measured two noble oxen, exhibited by Ferdinand Kuchel- 

 bacher, of Oberdorf, near Bruck, Styria. The largest (No. 244) 

 Avas an eight years old Mariahof ox, in fair condition, but not 

 fat ; born in Styria. He measured as follows : — 



ft. in. 



Girth behind shoulders 8 9 



Length from shoulder to set-on of tail 6 



Total length taken from poll to tail 8 3 



Length from shoulder point to hook 4 11 



Height at withers 5 8 



Girth below knee 9^ 



Girth above knee 14 



This was, I believe, the largest ox on the show-ground, and 

 it girths more than any lean ox I ever heard of. 



Oherinntlialer Race. — This is a Tyrolese race, specimens of 

 which were exhibited by Jakob Rimmel Oberhofen Telfs and 

 H. Jakob Seisser Flaurling, both of the Tyrol. It is a small 

 jnountain breed, of yellowish-grey colour, black on the nose, 

 short in the horn, and the cows show well for milk. One 

 bull, exhibited by the first-named gentleman, had a good deal of 



