of t lie Vienna Exhibition, 1873. 19 



The herd had been imported from the best type of the race In 

 Switzerland. 



The Molt h( lie r Race was represented by specimens exhibited by 

 Georg Lakner, of Altenmarkt, Sachsenburg-, Carinthia, among 

 the Noric Alps ; also by animals exhibited by Andreas Meixner 

 and other breeders, all from the same locality. The cattle were 

 reddish-brown and white, red and white ; yellow-red and white ; 

 red-striped, and brown with white stripes. 



The Lavanttludcr is another Carinthian race, fawn or " sem- 

 mel-farbig," with a white head. The colour of this race seems to 

 be characteristic and uniform. 



The Moravian Landsclilag, or, as Ave should say, the country 

 cattle of Moravia, are a red-and-white race, which have found 

 an improver in Leopold Hauptische, estate director at Tiln in 

 Moravia, who maintains a herd of 200 head, 



Heinrich Heller, of Iglau, Moravia, exhibited a pair of oxen, 

 one of which was remarkably good, the result of a cross between 

 the Moravian and Bernese races. The ox was particularly good 

 in his hind quarters, and was red, with a white forehead. Good 

 working and fatting cattle are the results of this cross. 



Another cross worthy of attention was that effected between 

 the Lower Austrian race and Milrzthaler males. All were good 

 grey cattle, very similar in appearance to the Podolian race. 



The average yield of milk from 48 cows, constituting a herd 

 of these cattle, has been 470 imperial gallons per head per 

 annum for several years past. 



A breed, described as German, appeared from Moravia, which, 

 however, bore no resemblance to those Dutch cattle which 

 formed so large a proportion of the German section of the Exhi- 

 bition. They are described in my notes as yellow, broken with 

 white ; one having a white face, and the other not. Both had 

 white or cream-coloured muzzles. 



The German cattle, from Kwassitz, Moravia, are again quite 

 distinct, and vary from a light faw^n to a good dark red, and 

 all have black or spotted noses. As the colour darkens, it appears 

 more apt to become broken with white. Another example was 

 light brown, shading to light "fawn and white, and one was 

 finely dappled, self-coloured, and brown. The proprietor, Ritter 

 von Proskowetz, rents under Count Thun, and is a spirited agri- 

 culturist, whose estate I subsequently visited. He maintains a 

 herd of 500 head of these cattle, which supply him with working 

 oxen, and 120 to 150 head of feeding cattle annually. The 

 younger animals exhibited were bred in Kwassitz, but the elder, 

 calved from 1865 to 1867, had been imported from Croatia. 

 The principal object in breeding these cattle is to obtain large 

 strong bullocks for work. 



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