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butter. Lately the system of making butter from sweet milk by sepa- 

 rators is becoming quite popular. Cheese is made after the method of 

 Holland and Switzerland, the fat, half fat, and the cream sorts. I 

 have not seen any cheese here of the character of our "Western He- 

 serve" brand. 



CATTLE CENSUS OF HUNGARY. 



The proportion of cattle raised for the butcher and the dairy will be 

 seen in the following statements, the natives being raised principally 

 for the butcher, and the Eed Spotted and the Brown nearly altogether 

 for the dairy. 



The census of 1881 showed : 



Per cent. 



Native White cattle 60 



Red Spotted 20 



_ Brown cattle -- 16 



' Buffalo aud crosses , 10 



100 



The following were the numbers of each and of all: 



Native : 



Bulls 31,702 



Cows 1,535,960 



Young cattle 1,463,132 



Oxen : 1,033,720 



Total 4,064,514 



Eed Spotted aud Brown: 



Bulls 14,722 



Cows 499,257 



Young stock 404,124 



Oxen 119,671 



Total Red Spotted and Brown 1,037,774 



Oxen of different races in fattening 115,286 



Buffaloes 93,804 



Grand total in census of 1881 5,311,378 



Grand total in census of 1871 5,279,193 



Increase in ten years 32,185 



This seems to be and is, in fact, a very small increase for such a period 

 in a country which is so well adapted for cattle raising, and to whose 

 interest it is as much as I have pointed out. I believe, however, that 

 the next census will show far more satisfactory results, since the syste- 

 matic efforts have been begun only at the end of the last decade; but 

 what is of more value, the results as to quality and the profits in conse- 

 quence will prove undoubtedly more satisiactory. 



I am informed that the larger proportion of the above increase has 

 been made in the dairy branch, and it is anticipated that this interest 

 will nearly double in a few years. 



IMPORTS OF CATTLE INTO HUNGARY. 



Hungary is able to raise and is raising all the cattle needed at home 

 for any purpose, and produces a surplus in cattle for the butcher. In 

 consequence, there is nothing imported but the animals for breeding 

 purposes, and these, as I have shown, come nearly altogether from the 



