The AustTo-Hungarian Empire. 387 



There Is a magnificent square court, one side of which I hurriedly 

 sketched (see Fig. 8). The remaining three sides are the same, 

 with the exception of the central and higher portion. Each of 

 the remaining three sides is composed of 15 gables of 8 yards 

 wide each. The court is therefore 120 yards square. There is 

 not a fragment of wood in this homestead, every part being 

 brick or stone. The stables are arched, and the roofs are all 

 supported upon brick pointed arches. One stable was roofed by 

 arches, springing from a double row of pillars and the side walls. 

 Another wonderful ox-stable was spanned by a single arch of 

 30 feet. 



Ckops grown and Live Stock maintained. 



The yielding power of the soil and the kind of stock main- 

 tained will be best given in tables (see pp. 388, 389), and it 

 may be found useful to compare the figures with those previously 

 given in the portion of this Report devoted to Hungary (see 

 pp. 360-61). 



Conclusion. 



When the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society entrusted 

 me with a mission to Vienna, and to report upon the agriculture 

 of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they drew up some general 

 instructions as to certain points upon which inquiry was to be 

 made. They at the same time left me to a great extent to form 

 and follow my own plan. In the instructions forwarded to me by 

 the Society's Secretary, I was requested to report upon the Live 

 Stock exhibited at Vienna, and to keep in view certain im- 

 portant questions regarding their relation to English stock, and 

 their possible relations to England. Secondly, to visit and report 

 upon the agriculture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, noticing 

 especially facts having reference to the following questions : — 



(<2.) To what extent the primitive practice of a quarter of a 

 century back has been modified or superseded generally or locally 

 by the introduction of English stock and English implements. 



(Z*.) The contrast afforded by the large farms of that country 

 to English agriculture. 



(c.) The question of the supply of cattle from Austria and 

 Hungary to England, and the danger incurred from the presence 

 of cattle-plague on the frontier of that country. 



(<f.) The use made by the farmers of that country of the 

 sugar-beet as an article of cattle-food. 



(e.) Any novelty in the use of green crops used by the 

 farmers where grass is scarce, which might be applicable to 

 British agriculture. (/!) Organization 



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