DUTCH BELTED CATTLE 



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"BLACK PEARL,"' QUEEN OF THE HERD. 



and purchased registered, ring-nosed Taurus, with a dozen or more 

 other prize metal-ear-labeled animals. Within a few years we owned 

 a herd of belted cattle whose poetic names exhausted the alphabet, 

 for they were forty strong, and at the county fairs drew admiring 

 comments as well as honorable mention from both professional 

 and amateur for their beautiful markings and graceful forms. 



To be sure, the Aberdeen-Angus Polled, and Red Polled dual 

 purpose cattle have an element of greater safety where there are 

 children; and among others there were Ayrshire, Guernsey, Devon 

 and Jersey, Short-Horned and Holstein-Fresian, both beef and dairy 

 types, from which to choose, but beauty, as well as milk yield, counted 

 in favor of Dutch belted, many of which, ours among the number, 

 were bred from P. T. Barnum's imported animals. At one time the 

 live stock listed sixty cows, including yearlings, a dozen horses and 

 colts (the raising of the latter interesting, but expensive), one hundred 

 and fifty pigs and shotes, more or less, and poultry in goodly quantity. 



Milk. 



At this time the income from the dairy business averaged about 

 $450 per month gross. Delivery wagons marked "Hillcrest Farm," 

 pictured a Dutch belted cow a sort of coat of arms and guarantee 

 to our clientele that we kept cows, and that the milk wasn't 

 "boughten." Milk was weighed and recorded to the credit of each 

 high bred milch cow on the score card hung beside her photograph. 

 The stone spring house, built over a clear pebbly-bedded running 



