Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-30

The Vienna Cattle show.

The Mark Lane Express has an interesting
letter from the International Cattle Show
held at Vienna, to commence with the Grea
Exhibition, from which we make the follow
ing extract:
TIE general arrangement of the cattle and
sheep pens Is very unlike any English Exhi-
bitiOn, but still there is not much to com
plain Of Many other animals are exhibited
in the cattle and other classes which
would strike an English breeder as being
very remarkable. There is the gaunt-faced
long horned, grey Hungarian draft bullock,
as well as the red-Sknned, white haired, and
the black-skinned and black haired Buffet
bulls and cows from the same country, whose
shapeless forms and ugly horns turning back
over their necks do not give them very
pleasant appearance. There are many very
curious looking cattle exhibited, and there
are others OF very large, proportional
frames, which show very clearly the mark
that imported Short-Horn bulls have made
by the excellent crossers they have produced.
There are some as large, and We had nearly
written as well-shaped, we'll fatted steers as
we ever saw. There were indeed, grand and
noble cross-breed animals, not only amongst
the steers, but also in classes for bulls and
cows. There was larger number of very
good Dutch milking cows exhibited, which
show marked improvement in animals Of
the same breed we have seen sent to Eng
land. The Berner-Horn bulls and cows are
short-legged, tolarably compact animals,
showing a good deal of quality. As a
whole, the exhibition of foreign cattle was
success, as bringing together specimens OF
the various breeds, and also OF exhibiting
the herdsmen and dairymads from various
countries. Many of these women were most
Enthusiastically dressed, and seemed to bear the
scrutiny OF the numerous visitors with a
considerable amount of confidence.
The exhibition of foreign sheep is very
large. There is the delicate little Merino
with its fine wool and light flesh, and the
great coarse headed big framed Rambouilet
MerInO sheep. Then there some good
South-DOwn rams from Mr.. q. StahischmIdt
a raising breeder in Prussia; from Count
Erie s, of Cernahora, near Brunn, in Aus,
trla; from Baron Maguns, of Drehsa, Sax
Ony, and others who have more or less breed
from English sheep. There are also some
excellent cross-breed sheep from Merino
ewes by SOuth-Duwn and Costwold rams, as
well as some large foreign breed Oxford
Down rams. There were some little Russia u
sheep with neither frame, wool, nor mutton
worth looking at. The ten specimens of
Italian sheep sent by Count Landwirthschal-
titchea were SIMPLY the most ugly brutes We
ever saw; they have great wide fl piping
ears, long thin neck, a long thin body bent
like bow, and standing as high as donkey
1t the above named gentlemen 1--WE dare not
write his name second tme) sent these
sheep to show how ugly sheep can be, then
there will not be more successful thing in
the whole exhibition.
There are very large number Of foreign
pigs. and many of these are extremely good.
TIE best are those descended from animals
brought out from England; while there are
many good there are others equally bad. The
Hungarian pigs have a coat OF long tow
sy kInd of hair-nOt bristles-an6 the color
OF their skin is like that of a hedgehog These
animals are so atrociousy ugly tnat they
really seem as if they were the very things to
carry out MIR. Darwin's theory by showing
that they may be the connecting link with
some other animal. but what that other ami
NAL is We dare not venture to say.