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beef will not unfrequently dress up to 65 or 70 per cent, of the 

 live weight. 



But in the production of milk there is nothing to brag of. 

 Here the Hungarian cow falls below the standard, not only of 

 what is considered a fair yield of other races and breeds in 

 Europe, but of what it is proper for a cow anywhere to give. 

 The milk is rich, but neither abundant or long continued. 

 According to accurate experiments, it has been found that the 

 average annual yield is only 678 quarts. Taking this as a unit, 

 the product of an English dairy cow would stand at one and 

 two-fifths, of a Swiss, at two, of a Dutch, at three, as a general 

 rule ; that is, in the normal or ordinary condition of things. 

 Many well fed and well cared for Hungarian cows give a good 

 deal more tlian the average, some of them giving over 900 

 quarts a year, which is still small. As a partial offset to this, 

 it should be stated that the Hungarian cow is small as compared 

 with the large breeds of Europe, and that she requires a 

 proportionally small allowance of food. 



A fat Hungarian ox will dress from 535 to 565 pounds, 

 besides from seventy-five to ninety pounds of tallow. A fat 

 cow will dress on an average about 490 pounds, with about 

 sixty-three to seventy pounds of tallow, in addition. Hungary 

 sends from 2,000 to 3,000 head of cattle a week to the Vienna 

 market. The main object of raising cattle in the country is for 

 beef and for labor. Some cheese is made, but not a great 

 amount. 



Other European breeds have been imported and kept in 

 certain parts of Hungary, in some cases for the purposes of 

 crossing; and in others, as at the Agricultural Institute at 

 Altenburg, for purposes of experiment and breeding. These 

 are the Schwytzer, the Miirzthaler, the Bernese, the Frieslanders, 

 <fec. The Schwytzer takes the lead in richness of milk, but except 

 in this particular fitness for the dairy, no race surpasses the 

 indigenous Hungarian. 



The beautiful iron-grey cattle, which I took occasion to 

 allude to in my last report, as inhabiting the campagnas in the 

 Roman States and in Tuscany around Florence, resemble the 

 Hungarians so strikingly that there can be little doubt they 

 were originally brought from Hungary. The intimate relations 



