184 CATTLE BELTED GALLOWAYS 



England." From Featherstone the belted blood was distri- 

 buted among the tenantry and became popular, and prizes 

 were offered for them at the Haltwhistle cattle show. They 

 are present in greatest numbers in the outlying mossy region, 

 to the north of Haltwhistle, up the South Tyne, and up 

 the Irthing to the north of Gilsland. Not many farmers 

 have bred from belted cattle on both sides, but exceptions 

 were the Grahams of Wileysyke and Rotheryhaugh, 

 Gilsland ; Thomas Teasdale, Bogg, Slaggyford, whose herd 

 has existed for forty years ; the late George Armstrong of 

 Whiteside, Haltwhistle (who had about 16 cows) ; Walter 

 Armstrong, late of Scotscoulthard, Haltwhistle, now of 

 Crook Burn, Penton, Newcastleton (20 cows and their 

 progeny of the direct line from the Melville Galloways of 

 about eighty years ago) ; and George Waugh, late of Moss 

 Petral (who has retired). The Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon 

 has for many years taken much interest in "specialising" in 

 the original strain, producing the most perfectly marked 

 beasts by carefully selecting belted sires to mate with his 

 pure-bred herd of milch cows at Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill 

 (Plate LXIII.). 



There is no absolutely uniform white marking, as, in 

 addition to different shapes and sizes of the belt (which is 

 most perfect when it goes right round the body and extends 

 from behind the shoulder to the hooks, and thus includes the 

 front of the udder and two teats) white feet and tail ends are 

 often seen. At times the white sheet is only on one side, on 

 others it does not reach so far up as the back-bone, and it may 

 be represented by only a small patch. Where the black and 

 the white hair meet about half an inch of black skin grows 

 white hair. In the case of a good many representatives of 

 the breed, black patches of skin growing pure white hair occur 

 within the white areas, and are only to be seen in summer 

 after the winter coat is shed. It is claimed for the breed that 

 they are bigger framed, and, though not so wild, are quite as 

 robust and hardy as the black Galloways, and also better 

 milkers ; but the hair of those in the North of England is not 

 so silky. They seldom go wrong or give trouble in parturi- 

 tion. White heads or "brocket" (mottled) faces, especially 

 seen in Bladnoch, do not normally belong to this strain. The 

 experience of breeders in securing white markings is very 



