The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-07-16
Special Correspondence of the N. Y Daily
Times.
The Great Agricultural and Cattle
Exhibition in Paris.
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you think in the United States to see a
cattle show q fashionable promenade ?
What would you think to see your scent.
ed beaux and belle crinolineS choose
such nm unfragrant locality for lovers
rendezvous The English and the
Flamands know how to cultivate beef
steaks, but they must come to France to
have them exhibited and cooked. 1t is
only the French who indulge in such su-
perb hospitality as that We see offered
the Ddrhams and the Sou,hdowns at the
Exhibition.
With the souvenirs Of American cat
tie shows and American farm.yards yet
fresh in the memory, I did not dare to
thiuk OF making my first visit to the
Exhibition in other than masculine com
pany. We entered the immense Palace
expecting to meet other odors than those
exhaicd from rose beds, and other noises
than those of BERLIoZ orchestra. But,
on the contrary. we met rose beds and
cacti, rhododendrons and jessimanes, or
angcs and citrons, grass-plats and bou
quets, fountains of gushing water and
luxuriant trees. In the graveled walks,
reclining on seats, we saw crowds Of
fashionable ladies cycling with their
glasses the promenaders while at the
side CT all these attractions, under the
galleries of the palace, reclining on soft
beds of straw, were the animals we had
come to see.
Such collection Of enormous, gigan.
tic, frightfully ovorgrown specimens Of
the bovine race, it is safe to soy, was
never before seen. And you would sup
pose that in collection of eight hun
drcd Of the male and seven hundred of
the female species in the same nclosurc,
you would hear nothing but confusion
of believing and roaring that night re-
joice your agricultural friends, but which
would remind you of tornado, or one
of MEYEEDEI RS ole'as. Not at all.
The cattle are as well behaved us so
many pet lambs. You hear only the
jingle of the mountain bells ana the soft
music Of the berdmans horn, for these
their guardian sound to charm the ami
mails and give them an illusion Of their
far.ofl home--an illusion which not only
quiets them, but exercises a salutary 10.
tiucnce on their health
If you turn to the right on entering
you find yourself at once in the midst of
the best specimens of the Durham race
Which England could produce Aud in
examining these enormous square grown
animals you como to the conclusion that
the science of crossing so as to roduce
the greatest amount and perfection of
beef.steak cannot be pushed any further.
Under the west gallery you find the
Ayrshire breed, pure black, without
horns and larger still than the Durhams
and lIerefords Under the south gal
lery we find the Fribourgoise race
large and fine race and tue various tribes
Of eastern Europe. These include the
tribes Of Hungary and other Austrian
provinces on the Danube, which afford
the greatest number of varieties A few
domesticated buffaloes are included in
this lot but the specimens which attract
tie greatest attention are the long horn.
ed cattle. These animals carry long,
straight, or nearly straight and very
pointed, horns, which measure a yard in
length. They are white, tall and not
heavy. The hcrdsmon in this part of
the Exhibition, on account of the long
distance they have come, their pictures,
que costumes, the decorations Of their
animals and their hcrdsmens iustru-
ments, attract as much attention as the
animals
Further along under the same gallery
we come to the Emperor'S stock and the
stock belonging to the State, for tho
State also owns cattle. The Emperor
exhibits four heads only-but these are
remarkable. For the information Of Gu.
ficus readers, should mention that
there are twelve State bulls. The other
day, when the Empress visited the ex-
hibition, the proprietor of half dozen
fine animals forgot in his enthusiasm the
questionable character of such present,
aud offered his finest one to her Males.
ty. She gracefully accepted the gift,
ard tho same animal now figures as nam
Der twelve in the catalogues Of State an-
imals mentioned above.
In the Flemish department wo find
some Of the most remarkable cattle in
size, color and form, in the Exhibition.
Their color is rich dark bay Near
by, in tho Normandy stalls, there is al
ways a crowd around Norman bull of
stature and of height of shoulder
which surpasses the Imagination. They
call him the beast of the Apocalypse A
French woman near VI exclaimed ~Well,
| hope we'll have plenty of good beef
steaks this year !"
In the basins of two Of the fountains
of the nave we SEQ two of the systems Of
pisciculture in operation. Fish of all
ages are seen, from the egg up to eigh-
teen inches in length. Some of tho
learned fish from the College of Franco
are also to be seen here, but they do not
sing as ChariUari asserted,nof do they
dance on their tails to the music of band
This is, however, one Of the most curious,
practical and instructive parts of the
Exhibition.
The four galleries of the Palace are
occupied by light agricultural ane do.
mes,ic machines, agricultural products,
garden decorations and models. The
exten,-apd variety of this collection is
immense. The English machines, as