724 CYCLOrEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Yield of milk 24,893.5 lbs Breed rank eighth 



Churned butter 977.1 lbs lireed rank tenth 



Net prolit on butter $111.9G Breed rank tenth 



Total solids ;>, 1)6(147 • lbs Breed rank ninth 



Value solids $275.98 Breed rank ninth 



This is in no sense an extraordinary record. 



As beef producers the Dutch Belted cannot be regarded as superior to 

 the dairy breeds and will not compare with the Holstein-Friesian favor- 

 ably. They do not produce flesh so characteristic of some Holstein- 

 Friesian and they lack the size of the latter. There are few steere on 

 the market of this breed because of the general scarcity of the breed. 



The fertile meadows of the ]\Iississi})pi Valley will provide more favor- 

 able conditions for the best development of the breed and the general 

 adaptdbility of the Dutch Belted is quite comparable with the Dutch type 

 if bred to thrive on abundant food under favorable conditions. A well 

 known herd in America is in New Hampshire where it thrives in a rough, 

 mountainous section where the winters are severe and long. 



One of the special characteristics is the tendency to transmit the white 

 belt even when crossed with other breeds. Crossed on cattle of any solid 

 color they almost invariably produce the belt. If the dam be a Devon, 

 however, the calf may be red at the ends instead of black. If the dam 

 is a Short-horn the calf will sometimes be either red or roan. The belt, 

 however, will be there and of pure white. 



An interesting example cf this intensity of Dutch Belted prepotency is 

 that of a herd of the Ohio State Univei'sity. A cow of this breed was bred 

 to a pure Jersey bull and dropped a cross bred calf ^\^th a white blanket 

 about the body similar to that of the dam but had in addition one small 

 black spot on the white covering. The inferior value practically to this 

 breed as compared with others is responsible for the fact that their dis- 

 tribution is still confined in the main to Holland, the United States, 

 Canada and Mexico, and in the United States they are confined to New 

 York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mississippi 

 and California. 



XXI. Holstein-Friesians. 



Origin and Development. — The strongly marked black-and-white cattle 

 of North Holland and Friesland constitute one of the very oldest and most 

 notable of the dairy breeds. The historians of this race claim that it can 

 be traced back for two thousand years, continuously occupying the terri- 

 tory named and always famous for dairy purposes. Tradition has it that 

 two ancient tribes located upon the shores of the North Sea before the 

 beginning of the Christian era; one possessed a race of cattle pure white 

 and the other a kind all black. Men and cattle then became amalgamated, 

 forming the people and herds which for centuries have occupied that 



