20 JReport vjwn the Agriadtnral Features 



Kfferland Race. — This race is named after E^er, a town and 

 railway station on the frontier between Bohemia and Bavaria, 

 and not far west from Carlsbad. The beautiful specimens exhi- 

 bited by A. E. Ritter von Komers, of Mostau, near Prag, were of 

 dark reddish-brown colour, and in form and hue not at all unlike 

 Devons, Avith creamy noses, and yellow skin around the eyes. 

 They are a small race, the average live weight being aljout 864 

 English pounds. The herd of which these were examples, 

 numbers 50 cows, 2 bulls, and 2'6 young cattle, and the object of 

 the breeder is to increase the size of the carcass and the quantity 

 of the milk. 287 gallons of milk per head per annum is the ave- 

 rage result now obtained. They are well suited to stall feeding, 

 and are favourites with the sugar manufacturers and distillers 

 around -Magdeburg, in Saxonv. 



Fig. 6. — EijerJand Cow (^Bohemia), exliih'ted hy A. E. Bitter vcn Komers, 

 of Domain Mus'au. 



The Egerlaud cattle resemble the reddisli-brown Tj'rolese race in their 

 general chliracters, and are said to be tlie result of the crossing of the Bohe- 

 mian native race with Zillerthal bulls'. They have a nearly uniform dark 

 reddish-brown colour ; compact, deep, and powerful frame; short, broad head,, 

 bent sideways and forwards ; generally weak white horns, black at the tips ,- 

 strong and pendulous neck, a broad breast, and the tail somewhat highly placed. 



What should be specially noticed are their general healthiness, and their 

 contentedness with the quantity and the quality of their food. 



In consequence of these characteristics the Egerland cattle are very much 

 esteemed for breeding purposes ; they are distinguished for unusual endurance,, 

 and they are very much sought after for feeding purposes on account of 

 their great capability for fattening and the excellent flavour of their meat. 



The cows experimented upon in Mostau yielded from 240 to 300 gallons of 

 milk, for a consumption of 16 to 17 lbs. of hay per diem, and the best animals 

 give as much as 420 gallons. 



The average weight of a full-grown ox can be placed at as much as 9i cwt., 



