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showed some fair Lincolnshire swine, and nine young Berkshires 

 — three to six months old. 



The 20 Berkshire swine sent hj the Agricultural School of 

 Eldena, Pomerania, could not bear comparison with English- 

 bred pigs of the same race ; the heads having been allowed to 

 become narrow and long. These swine were from a herd of 

 about 150, established in 1860 by importations from England. 



Herr A. M. Sehon, Brestau, Linderode, Brandenburg, Prussia, 

 showed Berkshires, from his herd of bo head. These swine 

 were originally purchased from Sir Watkin Wynn, and fresh 

 boars are imported every second year from England. The 

 heads of these animals were also defective, the noses being ex- 

 ceedingly long, and therefore quite out of character with the 

 best examples of the race, 



H. Josef Diethelm, Brandenburg, Prussia, was an exhibitor of 

 Yorkshire and Suffolk crosses, which may be spoken of as very 

 excellent swine, the descendants of animals imported from 

 England in 1863. 



Austria. — Nothing but English breeds of swine appeared in 

 this section. Taking both the German and Austrian sections, 

 the conclusion seemed inevitable that English races have dete- 

 riorated, or, at least, materially altered in character, in foreign 

 hands. They have lost roundness of form, and acquired an 

 inordinate length of head and legs. There were exceptions to this 

 rule, among which may be mentioned a fine hog, exhibited by Herr 

 Johann Wilfort, of Lower Austria — a cross between English and 

 Chinese swine ; several fine Lincolnshire swine, exhibited by 

 Prince Franz Salm-Reifferscheid, Bohemia ; some good swine of 

 English race, shown in the collection of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, Vienna ; and some good SufFolks, exhibited by Heir 

 Domiine Smiritz, Hovrenoves, Bohemia. A sow (133), exhibited 

 by Herr Alois Soinmer, was also a great attraction. She was 

 white, and of Yorkshire race, bred in Moravia. She was ac- 

 companied by nine remarkably fine suckers, very large for their 

 age, and these were all sold on the first day at 6Z. sterling each, 

 and many persons who came later to buy were disappointed. 



Huncjary. — The English races were scarcely found in this 

 section. Herr A. L. Blaschko, Szegedin, showed a black sow, 

 the result of a cross between Hungarian and English swine. 

 The principal point to be observed was that this sow had littered 

 five times in two years, and produced 16 to 18 young ones on each 

 occasion. 



With regard to Hungarian races, it may be stated that they 

 are exceedingly unsightly, and even disgusting, in appearance to 

 an English eye. Such at least was the impression conveyed to 

 me : others, well accustomed to English swine, shared in it. This 



