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results so satisfactory as was expected. They have no doubt, 

 however, done some good, as many of the horses exhibited 

 possessed many points of resemblance to the Yorkshire breed. 

 There were 1 64 horses on the ground ; they were generally in 

 good condition, and well groomed. 



In the "Cattle" classes prominence was duly given to the 

 breeds best suited for dairy purposes, of which several excellent 

 specimens were exhibited, Ijoth of the native Jutland and the 

 Slesvig breeds. The Jutland dairy breed is of small size, 

 generally black or white, or of a dun colour, with coarse heads 

 and muzzles — not at all prepossessing in appearance, but pre- 

 senting great opportunities for improvement by judicious selec- 

 tion in breeding, or by crossing with other suitable breeds. The 

 Angel (Slesvig) breed is darkish red in colour, small in size, but 

 well shaped, with fine symmetrical heads and necks, good 

 quarters, and all the characteristics of good milkers. The class 

 for collective specimens of the particular breed afforded a good 

 opportunity of forming a satisfactory judgment of the stock of 

 the exhibitor, as the bull, cows, and their produce, were placed 

 together in each lot. 



There does not appear to have been at any time much infusion 

 of foreign blood into the native breeds of the country, neither did 

 the stock exhibited indicate that careful selection in breeding 

 which we consider so important at home. In the mixed-breeds 

 classes there were a few crosses with the Alderney and Ayrshire 

 blood, but no pure specimens of either were shown. 



A little more attention to the preparation of the stock generally 

 for exhibition, expecially as regards cleanliness, would have 

 materially improved their appearance. Many were too low in 

 condition for even ordinary purposes. The same observations 

 which I ventured to make with reference to the stock exhibited 

 at Vienna are even more applicable here.* 



* "Rarely out of our own country do we find the same amount of care and 

 attention bestowed on the preparation of stock for exhibition that we are accus- 

 tomed to at home. This difference of treatment has its advantages as well as its 

 disadvantages. The animal is shown in its natural every-day condition, with all 

 its points, good or bad, fairly exposed, and its merits or defects open to an easy 

 judgment. It has not been forced by early and rich feeding to assume abnormal 

 proportions or an undue maturity, too often at the cost of its natural powers, but 

 stands as the honest representative of what it professes to be, and visibly justifies 

 the value that is placed upon it. At the same time the unprejudiced visitor from 

 England must, without attempting to defend the exaggerated mode of preparation 

 at home, observe the general depreciation which stock of any sort undergoes 

 when exhibited without that due attention to condition and cleanliness with 

 which all stock properly cared for ought always to be treated. These are indeed 

 points which, though frequently sadly neglected, are as liable to affect the general 

 health and vigour of an animal, as is over-feeding, though in different ways, and 

 certainly claim attention from the owners of stock in the Austrian Empire." — 

 Eeport on the Agricultural Exhibition at Vienna, p. 32. 



