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Report upon the Agricultural Features 



No. 183 was a four-year-old working ox, exhibited by Jakob 

 Dentinger, of Markt, Salzburg : — 



ft. in. 



His girth beliind shoulder was 7 9 



Length from shoulder to set-on of tail 5 11 



Total length from poll to set-on 8 2 



Height at shoulder 5 5 



Shoulder point to hook bone 4 4 



Girth above knee 1 5 



Girth below knee 10 



Another example, exhiljited by the Brothers Koch, Ischl, 

 Upper Austria, a seven-year-old ox, gave the following dimen- 

 sions : — 



ft. in. 



Girth '.. ..8 



Length from shoulder to set-on of tail 6 



Total length 8 



Girth below knee lOi 



Girth above knee 16 



Shoulder point to hook bone 4 5 



Height at shoulder 5 7 



Fig. 7. — Pmzgau Cow (Salzburg, Tyrol), exhibited by the Hoyal Imperial 

 Agricultural Society of Salzburg. 



The Pinzgau race is the result of a cross of the Simmenthal breed with the 

 ancient domestic cattle of the country ; it is distributed throughout the whole 

 of the Salzburg region, with the exception of a couple of small valleys of the 

 Lungau, where the dappled mountain breed still exists. It is also "found in 

 certain parts of the Tyrol, adjacent to the Pinzgau district, also in Upper 

 Austria as far as Wels. It is the preponderating breed in the district of 

 Enns and St. Florian, in a great part of Upper Bavaria, and it is even, though 

 more si)arse]y, met with in Lower Bavaria. For breeding purposes these 



