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Transylvania. This is a slighter animal, much lighter in bone 

 than the Alfoldi, and with small horns. It has been chiefly bred 

 for early maturity, and for meat and milk qualities. In both these 

 breeds careful selection has taken place and pedigrees adopted. 

 But the greater number of cattle exhibited were of milk-producing 

 breeds, such as the Bavarian Algau,the Tyrolese, and the Swiss. 

 Many of those exhibited by peasant farmers were really excellent 

 specimens, and give an impression that the Hungarians have 

 made a wise selection for this special purpose. But it is a sur- 

 prising fact that our English breeds, either pure or crossed, were 

 unrepresented in the Pozsony Exhibition, and it would appear 

 that their value as either meat or milk producers is unknown, or 

 not appreciated, in Hungary. 



In the sheep section the breeds represented were the 

 Finomgyapjas, large-bodied, huge-horned animals, whose flesh 

 cannot be anything but coarse, but it is bred chiefly for the wool, 

 which is very abundant and fine in texture ; the Rambouillet ; 

 the Negretti-Rambouillet, a cross between the last named and a 

 native black-woolled breed ; and a few Hampshire Downs. The 

 three first named are strong in wool qualities, and the last has 

 been introduced for its meat properties. Mutton is evidently 

 not much in demand in Hungary. 



In pigs the ubiquitous Yorkshire was strongly in evidence, 

 and it is scarcely surprising where pork is eaten to so large an 

 extent that this should be the case. Some very fine specimens 

 of Yorkshires were exhibited. The Hungarian Mangalicza is 

 both white and brown in colour, is long in head and snout, with 

 rough hair, though a few were exhibited with finer hair ; and a 

 third breed, called Fekete Fecslchasu Mangalicza, has a blue- 

 black body with a white stomach. A few Berkshires were shown, 

 but they were evidently not pure, as they were streaked with white ; 

 some Poland-Chinas, Westphalian, &c, and from this fact it is 

 evident that an attempt is being made to improve the pigs of 

 the country by the introduction of fresh blood. A most peculiar 

 pig was exhibited, called Baznai, said to be from Transylvania, 

 small in size, black in body, with a broad white circular band 

 immediately behind the forelegs. 



The poultry exhibited formed a very good collection, and a 

 proof of the great interest now manifested in this branch of rural 



