500 On the Breed of Horses and 



very fine colts have been produced from them during 

 the six years that have elapsed since this institution 

 was formed ; but these slow advances do not satisfy the 

 ardour of my zeal for improvement, and, if means are 

 not found to accelerate them, Bavaria, with all her 

 natural advantages for breeding fine horses, must be 

 obliged, for many years to come, to continue to import 

 horses from foreign countries. 



My attempts to improve the breed of horned cattle, 

 though infinitely more confined, have been propor- 

 tionally much more successful. Upon forming the 

 public garden at Munich, as the extent of the grounds 

 is very considerable, the garden being above six Eng- 

 lish miles in circumference, and the soil being remark- 

 ably good, I had an opportunity of making within the 

 garden a very fine and a very valuable farm ; and this 

 farm being stocked with about thirty of the finest cows 

 that could be procured from Switzerland, Flanders, 

 Tyrol, and other places upon the Continent famous 

 for a good breed of horned cattle, and this stock being 

 refreshed annually with new importations of cows as 

 well as bulls, all the cows which are produced are dis- 

 tributed in the country, being sold to any person of the 

 country who applies for them, and with promise to rear 

 them at the same low prices at which the most ordinary 

 calves of the common breed of the country are sold to 

 the butchers. 



Though this establishment has existed only about 

 six years, it is quite surprising what a change it has 

 produced in the country. As there is a great resort 

 to Munich from all parts of the country, it being the 

 capital and the residence of the sovereign, the new 

 English Garden (as it is called) which begins upon the 



