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The journal of Heredity 



THE BELTED BULL AND SOME OF THE HEIFERS USED IN THESE 

 CROSSBREEDING EXPERIMENTS 



Significant results in crossing Belted Cattle with Pied cattle were obtained by Mr. Houwink 

 in his breeding experiments at Meppel, Holland. The bull was belted and all of the heifers were 

 piebald. Of 55 calves born, 27 were belted, 25 were solid colored, and 3 were pied. Of the belted 

 ones, only a few had the true pattern of the sire. Figure 2 illustrates the transmission of the 

 various characters. (Fig. 3.) 



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IN PURE BREEDING OF BELTED CATTLE BLACK OR RED CALVES SOMETIMES 



RESULT 



In 1918 one black calf and four belted ones were produced from the matings of the Laken- 

 velder or Dutch Belted Bull, Albert Wassenaar, with five cows of his own breed. The diagram 

 illustrates both sides of the calves with the cows above them, and the bull at the top. (Fig. 4.) 



