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ofthe Norfolk and Suffolk breed—also red and polled—have 
_ been taken thence to infuse new blood. Some of the Austrian 
agricultural journals have also advocated for this purpose the 
_ introduction of the Aberdeen-Angus, which came so prominently 
_ before their notice at the Paris International Exhibition in 1878. 
These red polled cattle of Austria are very interesting, and we 
_ &eable to produce, from the most direct source, some informa- 
_ tion about them of the greatest interest. 
Weare indebted to the exertions of the Chevalier Walcher 
-Č Moltheim, ministerial counsellor, director of Prince Lichten- 
_ Stin’s estates. In a letter dated Vienna, I Bank Street, 9, Feb- 
4 mary 5, 1886, he says,— 
’ X I send you herewith enclosed the letter I wrote you some 
ut ago, but which I did not mail because the answers I re- 
“a i 
A The Feports I could obtain about hornless cattle in Austria 
‘ were delayed, an 
ness the Prince of Lichtenstein, hornless cattle were pro- 
ry disease. The production of hornless cattle showed 
ancy in this respect, that, even in those cases where, 
of hornless bulls, horned bulls were em- 
igh degree of improvement. : 
“ape 1868 three cows and one bull of English breed 
‘ ug. t for the stall at Radim; but I have not been in- 
Which British breed these unhorned animals belonged. 
Catt 
~ Year 1868, before the purchase of the English animals, 
ii hornless cattle at the domain of Radim was as fol- 
lost of eys twenty-six cows, and two calves. : : 
= Sse cattle were of red or brownish-red color; one _ 
