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barrel ' (Youatt). The cows, sometimes horned, but more 

 frequently hornless, are hardy, docile, and better suited 

 to the dairy than others that have been adopted. The 

 peculiar marking which distinguishes these cattle is not 

 confined to any one breed. It appears among the cattle of 

 Wales when they are crossed by the White Forest Breed, 

 and is frequent among those of Ireland, and used to be 

 amongst the older Galloways of Scotland. It is very common 

 in Holland, where the colours are black and white. It may 

 be ascribed to the intermixture of two races having each a 

 tendency to produce the pristine colour of the stock from 

 which it is derived." 



On the authority of the Rev. Geo. Gilbert, quoted by 

 A. D. Euren : " At one time there were quite a number of 

 sheeted cattle, since dead, out on the Marshlands bordering 

 on Norfolk and Suffolk, which had been there for quite a 

 century. They were brought over from Holland at the time 

 when great numbers of cattle were landed from the Continent 

 at Yarmouth and other places." 



The chief home of the Belted Galloway during recent 

 years has been the Haltwhistle district of Tyneside, not their 

 native Galloway, where they have declined in numbers (a) as 

 a result of the favour conferred on black by the Herd Book 

 regulations, directing foreign buyers to pure black skins ; 

 (b) in consequence of the increased numbers of sheep kept 

 displacing some of the old pure-bred though not pedigree 

 herds in which white-belted cattle were kept ; and (c) owing to 

 the uncertainty as to purity since Ayrshire cattle came into 

 the district. They were first introduced into the North of 

 England from the South of Scotland about the beginning 

 of last century, by Lady Melville (Lady Jane Hope of 

 Hopetoun), the wife of Lord Wallace of Featherstone Castle, 

 Haltwhistle according to one tradition, from Lady Selkirk's 

 herd, Balmae, Kirkcudbright. She had been previously 

 married to the first Viscount Melville 1 (1742-1811), whose 

 statue in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, was erected in 1821. 

 They were known at one time as Melville Galloways ; but 

 they were probably not the first Galloways introduced into 

 Northumberland, since, as Dr Gillespie says, " the same race of 

 cattle (Galloways) have been kept from time immemorial in 

 Cumberland, the (adjoining) most north-westerly county of 



1 Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate 1775, raised to the Peerage in 1802, 

 persecuted politically 1803. 



