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CATTLE AND DAIEY FARMING. 



In places where the cultivation of graiu is carried on to a disproportionate extern; 

 or where horse-raising prevails, the neat cattlo still suffer for the want of food, as in 

 Ingolstadt, Straubing, and in the vrholo Eotthal Valley. 



Breeding : Where the. breeders possess sufficient knowledge, and understand the 

 superiority an d value of native pure-bred stock, their avocation i s 1 ucrati ve. Numer- 

 ous unions have been formed for the encouragement of improvements in breeding 

 stock. Some years ago a preference existed in favor of the Simmenthal cattle from 

 Switzerland, whicji were frequently crossed with other breeds. Now this method is 

 disappearing, aj>a the conviction prevails that when well cared for and well bred the 

 Bavarian cattle are equal in every way to the Swiss. 



HANDLING CATTLE PRODUCTS IN BAVARIA. 



The most of the Bavarian braeds furnish excellent cattle for working and fattening, 

 and the Bavarian beef is well and favorably known at home and abroad and com- 

 mands a good price. The oxen are the principal source of income of cattle-breeders, 

 and they are bred with excellent judgment. Being trained to work they are much 

 sought after in the many cattle markets by dealers from other countries, especially 

 from North Germany, where, after they are-three or four years old, they are worked 

 and then fattened. 



The Bavarian oxen are easy going, fast steppers, represented to be better than 

 horses in pace, and are very enduring, tough, good and frugal eaters, fatten quickly, 

 attain heavy weights, and furnish a tender and palatable meat. 



The dairy business is canied on largely only in the south of Bavaria, but, since the 

 last five years, has been extending. The AUgau cheese now compares favorably with 

 Emmenthal, but, as yet, in quality, is not quite its equal. 



Bavarian table butter from the centrifugal dairies goes in large quantities, mostly 

 in an unsalted state, to North Germany and, slightly salted, to England. With the 

 increase of dairies, breeding and fattening of hogs has also increased, both in quan- 

 tity and quality in Bavaria. * 



Speoidl statistics of Bavarian cattle. 



Name of breed. 





Milk to 



pounds of 



butter. 



Height from 



ground 

 to -withers. 



Kame of district. 



n 



Length of 

 body. 



Girth behind 

 the shoul- 

 ders. 



m 



Pinagauer * — 

 Miesbacher*. .. 

 Simmenthaler* 



Ansbacher*. 

 Kelheimer*. 



AUgauer* 



Glan Bonnersherger t 



Scheinfeldcrt 



EUinger t 



"Voigtlandert. 



Murnau-Wordenfelser t . . 

 Bayreuthor Schecken t . . 



Us. 

 5;E00 

 5,060 

 0,500 



5,500 

 3,300 



6,600 



4,400 

 4,400 



5, 500 

 3,300 



Quarts. 

 10. 5 to 12. 3 

 10.5 n.4 

 10. 5 11. 4 



10.5 

 9.6 



1L4 

 U.4 



10.5 

 10.5 



10.5 

 10.5 



4,950 10.5 

 4, 400 10. 5 



12.3 

 11.4 



12.3 

 11.4 



11.4 

 11.4 



Upper liavaria — 

 do 



Dispersed through 

 nearly all Bava- 

 ria. 



Middle Franconia 



In Middle Eranco- 

 nia and Lower 

 Bavaria, and es- 

 pecially in Up- 

 per Palatinate. 



In Suabia, Neu- 

 burg, Upper 

 Bavaria, and 

 partly in the ro- 

 maining dis- 

 tricts. 



Palatinate 



In the three Fran- 

 oonia distiicts 

 and in the Up- 

 per Palatinate. 



Middle Fnmconia. 



Upper Franconia 

 and Upper Pal- 

 atinate. 



Upper Bavaria — 



Upper Franconia . 



Lns. 

 53.1 

 55.1 

 56. C 



52.3 

 52.3 



Ins. Im. 

 52. 2j 

 55. 1 64. 9 

 55. 1 64. 5 



52. 

 .54.3 



51.2 



61.2 

 55.1 



Itis. Tns. Ins. 

 62. 61. 

 61. 61. 60. 9 

 61. 61. 73. 8 



01.4 

 62.9 



62.9 

 62.9 



01.0 



53.5 -,..61.064.9 



55. 161.4 62. 9|61. 4 06. 9, 



Ins. Ins. 

 78. 7 81. 8 

 70. 78. 7 

 70. 78. 7 



76. 7 77. 

 76. 7 81. S 



71. 9 77. 1 



Ins, 



94.4 

 9L3 



53.1 

 49.8 



71 3 

 77. 



51.2 



60. 5 57. 4 62. 9 



-.61.0 



62.9 



53. 5 63. 7 6L 57. 



77.1 



66.9 

 62.9 



78.7 

 ,72.3 



70.9 



84.6 



80.3 

 73.8 



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