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black skin ai'ound the eyes. The horns were short and black ; 

 ears of lighter colour, inside and out ; the colour also lighter on 

 the poll, and the rest was mouse-brown ; the stature was low ; the 

 carcass long and well-made. The herd,' of which this was a 

 specimen, numbers 114 head, bred carefully from cattle imported 

 from Canton Schwyz in 18G9 and 1872. The production of 

 milking and fatting cattle, and the raising of useful work-oxen, ai'e 

 the objects aimed at by the owner and breeder. The late Prince 

 Schwarzenberg exliibited three pure-bred Swiss cattle, a two- 

 year-old bull, and two two-year-old heifers. They were of 

 uniform dark-brown colour, with a much lighter stripe along 

 the spine, and the bull was almost black. Others were described 

 as grey-brown, with white round the muzzle, a white streak 

 down the spine, and light-coloured on the belly. Others 

 entered as Schwyzers were black-and-white and red-and-white, 

 but these evidently l^elonged to the section which comprises 

 Bernese and Fribourg cattle. 



Prince Schaumberg-Lippe exhibited a cross-bred cow, Ijy a 

 Dutch bull from a Swiss cow. This nobleman has made 

 a series of interesting and practical experiments by crossing 

 various races, with a view to increasing the yield of milk and 

 giving a strong, good constitution to his cattle (see Bernese 

 cattle). The animal in question was good, but had distinctly 

 taken after the sire. 



Allgaucr Race. — This is a ver}- favourite milking race through- 

 out the whole Empire, including Hungary, where it occurs on 

 the large estates. It emanates from the East Swiss i-ace, and 

 greatly resembles it. The Allgauer is only an indifferent 

 worker and moderate fattener, its speciality being milk. It 

 is found native in the north-east of Switzerland, where Baden, 

 Bavaria, and Switzerland meet, on the shores of Constance 

 Lake. The Vorarlberg Agricultural Society showed examples 

 of this race, bred at Bregenz, on the eastern borders of this 

 lake ; but specimens bred in the heart of the Empire and 

 Hungary were not wanting. 



Prince Schwarzenberg's Allgauer cattle greatly resembled the 

 Swiss and the Montafun races. Again, Baron Ludwig, Redl, 

 exhibited Allgauer cows and bulls, bred at Baumgarten, near 

 Kirchstetten, in Lower Austria, which gave rise to the remark 

 that they were very like Montafuner and Swiss cattle. All were 

 fine silver-grey and badger-grey, self-coloured cattle. The Duke 

 of Coburg-Gotha, in Lower Austria, also showed some beautiful 

 perfectly uniform mouse-grey cows and bulls, with dun noses 

 and scarcely a shade of difference in the colouring. These cattle 

 form part of a herd established in Lower Austria in 1820, which 

 since then has been mixed with no other blood. The Arch- 

 duke Albrecht, in Hungary, keeps many of these cows, and while 



