GEEMANY. 



451 



Statement allowing the annual and aggregate costs, expenses, and losses of pn/rohasing an^ 

 mainiavning six breeding iulls at Kirohheim under Teok, in Wuriemierg, during a period' 

 of five years. , 



1878-'79. 



1879-'«0. 



1880-'81. 



1881-'82. 



1882-'83. 



Total. 



Yearly 

 average. 



E3PBNDlTtIRES. 



Purchase-money 



Eodder 



Straw 



TreatmeDt 



Stable expenses 



Salt 



Costs of sale ■ 



Total 



EECEIPTS. 



Service of bulls 



Duug and ^tte 



Total 



Escess of expenditures over 

 receipts 



Mafit. 



1, 299. 60 



1,879^28 



45^16 



80.70 



37.99 



14.00 



10.64 



Mafks. 



678. 75 



1,621.88 



249. 93 



12.00 



4S.69 



12.00 



6.70 



Marks. 



1, 040. 2S 



1, 393. 45 



261. 96 



14.16 



16.97 



14.40 



7.60 



Marks. 



1, 423. 20 



1, 617. 44 



317. 81 



17.60 



14.50 



11.20 



13. S6 



Marks. 



887.00 



1, 421. 01 



459. 08 



6.23 



24.07 



16.00 



6.76 



Marks. 



5, 328. 80 



7,733.06 



1,740.94 



■79. 69 



143. 22 



67.60 



45.66 



Markf. . 



1, 065. 76 



1, 646. 61 



348. 10 



15. 84 



28.66 



13.52 



9.13 



S, 724. 37 



2, 630. 95 



2, 748. 79 



3,315.71 



2,8)9.15 



15, 138. '97 



3,027. 81 



1, 564. 00 

 640.20 



718. 00 

 517. 10 



790. 00 

 578. 40 



1, 714. 00 

 523. 80 



913. 00 

 539. 60 



5, 699. 00 

 2,799.10 



1, 139. 80 

 569. 82 



2, 204. 20 



1, 236. 10 



1, 3S8. 40 



2, 237. 80 



1,462.60 



8,498.10 



1, 699. 62 



1,520.17 



1, 380. 89 



1, 077. 91 



1, 366. 65 



6, 640. 87 



*1,328.19 



** To thia should be added the amount paid the bull-keeper for services, 420 marks, making a total of 

 1,748.19 marks in alL 



TOPOGRAPHY OF KIKCHHBIM UNDER TEOK (WURTEMBBRG). 



Altitude : 310 meters (1,017 English feet) above the level of the sea. The highest 

 point in the district is 810 meters above the level of the sea. 



Mean temperature : (Yearly average): Celsins, 8.8° ; E(5aumur, 7°; Fahrenheit, 48°. 

 Summer : (in August) : Celsius, 17. 6° ; K6aumur, 14° ; Fahrenheit, 64°. Winter (in 

 January): Celsins, —1. 5° ; Reaumur, —1. 2° ; Fahrenheit, 29°. 



Soil : Alluvial. The valley bottoms are partly fiUecl with soil from the mountain 

 slides. Loam everywhere predominates, and rarely mixed with sand. Clay is found 

 everywhere. In the lower, brown jura sand is very plentiful, as the product of sand- 

 stone. 



CATTLE-BEBEDING AT EOTTWEIL. 



Among the points in the Kingdom where cattle-breeding has been 

 carried on scientiflcally, with more or less success, is the neighborhood 

 of Eottweil, a flourishing town in the Black Forest section. With a view 

 of obtaining such information as was practicable in that quarter on the 

 subject embraced in this report I addressed a letter of inquiry to Oeco- 

 nomierath Burkhardt, president of the Bottweil Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, and received the following reply : 



EoTTWEiL, Getoier '21, 1863. 



In reply to your favor of the 19th instant 1 have the honor to state as follows : The 

 county (district of Eottweil) has for many years past ranked among the foremost in 

 regard to cattle-breeding. Although the sale of animals for breeding purposes is 

 always a very considerable one, and the extraordinarily hi^h prices obtained for 

 choice stock result; in the sending elsewhere of the finest specimens, yet no reaction 

 is noticeable. Bred since forty years in one direction (crossing with the Simmeu- 

 thaler) a homogeneonsness of race has been developed, so that experts at once recog- 

 nize the animals, even when exported to long distances, as the "Eottweil" breed. A 

 very efficient cause of the present condition of our cattle-breeding may be mentioned, 

 the keeping of township bulls as practiced in the district for forty years past. 



For the renewal of stock, which takes jjlace every three or four years with original 

 Siiumenthaler bulls (no cows have been imported for twenty years past), only well- 

 built and delicately-sbaped specimens are selected, the thick-skinned, hollow-shoul- 

 dered, heavy breed, that yields little milk, having for a long time been abandoned. 



In consequence of the system of cattle-Shows with premiums, introduced by the 

 centralstelle for agriculture, a considerable progress in cattle-breeding has been noted 

 in Wurtemberg. As at present in the district of Eottweil the hoof disease — showing. 



