200 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



metliodsof tilliugtbesoil, breeding, caring for and feeding their animals, 

 and eoononiizing the i)roducts. Some of the committee of the exhibi- 

 tion of 1803 were still taking an active interest in agricultural matters 

 when the present Hamburg Cattle Show was proposed, and they found 

 a prompt support in offering to the people another '' concours " to show 

 the advance which had been made in the two decades. In the exhibi- 

 tion of 1883 but few of the foreign countries lent the support which 

 such au undertaking deserved, and the exhibits were confined almost 

 entirely to Germany, with her closely related neighbors of Holland, 

 Denmark, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 



The exhibition was opened on the 3d of July, 1883. The buildings 

 were well arranged and every accommodation for the animals was pro- 

 vided, the details of which will be found in the accompanying catalogue. 



The exhibits were divided into nine sections, viz : 



1. Horses. 



2. Horned cattle. 



3. Sheep. 



4. Swine. 



5. Bees and the apparatus connected with their care. 



6. Fish. 



7. Fowl, 



8. Stalls, buildings, agricultural implements, &c. 



9. Scientific apparatus and methods of teaching all matters pertain- 

 ing to agriculture. 



Section I. — Horses. 



Division A. — Classes 1 to 4 were composed of thoroughbreds, which 

 presented no j^articular interest. Among the stallions one of the best 

 was au American, ^' Imagination," born 1874, by Longfellow out of a 

 Lexington mare. 



Classes 5 to 6 contained several excellent Arabs, which have been 

 of great use in Germany, as in France and elsewhere, in improving the 

 local breeds of horses before crossing them with the thoroughbreds. 



Division B. — Classes 7 to 12 called for riding, hunting, and cavalry 

 horses and mares, of three years and over, raised in Germany, Austro- 

 Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. These classes were largely 

 filled with good animals, especially from Austria, as the horses from 

 this country showed much more blood. 



Division D. — Classes 13-1") were for the same class of animals from any 

 country. England only of foreign countries was represented with sev- 

 eral good animals from the Stand Stud Coinpiny, but the first i)rize 

 was awarded to the rei)resentative of the Koyal Prussian stud. In this 

 division American horses could have been shown with specjial profit. 

 Equally good horses might have been sent from New York State and 

 the whole Alleghany ritlge, with an advantage of price on their side, 

 even with the ciost of tran.si)ortation and risk added. 



