336 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



io describe tlie condition of tlie houses where the women are 

 kept at work in tlic fields. 



Bavaria is pretty largely engaged in grape culture, and the 

 manufacture of wine. Of the thirty millions of acres which 

 comprise her territory, more than one hundred and twenty 

 thousand are covered with vineyards, but still she imports 

 large quantities of wine from France. 



Leaving Munich for Vienna, early in the morning, the road 

 continues on a high level plateau with the Tyrolese mountains 

 still in sight, as we skirt along almost at their foot. There is 

 nothing very striking in the agriculture of this section. For 

 many miles it is monotonous and uninteresting. 



Tiie races of cattle which attract the eye in passing through 

 the various parts of Austria are quite numerous. Li entering 

 the empire from the direction of Munich, the first considerable 

 town, lying directly upon the borders, is Salzburg, with ten or 

 twelve thousand inhabitants, beautifully situated on the river 

 Salza. Here we pass through a section where the stock is 

 mostly of the Pinzgau breed, dark red in color, with a white 

 line on the back, and generally white on the under part of the 

 body. The head is short, the eye surrounded by a circle ; the 

 muzzle is white, the horns about a foot long, and usually 

 inclined back ; the hind quarters rather large, and the tail set 

 high. The yield of milk is not very large, but its quality is 

 said to be excellent. The animals appear to fatten easily. 



"When entering the Austrian dominions from Lombardy, we 

 had formed an opinion of the nuisance of custom houses and 

 rigid rule in Austria, which corresponded very well with our 

 preconceived notions of this country. Li entering Austria 

 from any other part, however, one's experience is quite 

 different, and the traveller is subjected to less annoyance than 

 in entering the ports of our own country even, and I very soon 

 learned that there were local and temporary reasons for what 

 appeared to be unnecessary strictness. It was at a time when 

 commotions were anticipated in Italy, from the partisans of 

 Garibaldi, and every officer was on the lookout for sus])icious 

 persons, among whom most strangers were, no doubt, included. 

 In other parts of Austria I found the public officers civil and 

 gentlemanly, and after passing tlie boundaries of the empire no 

 passport was called for, no surveillance was ])erceptiblo, but on 



