74 Milk and Its Products 



black on the legs and tail. Their bodies are rather 

 heavy and somewhat beefy, though occasional animals 

 show the distinctive dairy form. As a rule, they are 

 not large producers, although occasional individuals 

 are found that rank well up with individuals of the 

 leading dairy breeds. There are comparatively few 

 herds in this country. Their owners, however, are 

 strong partizans of the breed, and claim for them the 

 advantages of docility, hardiness and constitutional 

 vigor. 



Dutch Belted. Dutch Belted cattle are a race 

 resembling the Holsteins, and probably closely related 

 to them. They are distinctly smaller in size, and the 

 black and white colors are segregated in black extremi- 

 ties, and a broad white band about the middle. They 

 are found in Holland, usually on large private estates, 

 and are there known as Lakenvelders. They were 

 introduced into the United States with the early Dutch 

 settlers about New York, and have shown such power 

 of transmitting their external characteristics that they 

 maintained themselves f practically pure, with no herd 

 book organization, until the latter part of the nine- 

 teenth century. In general characteristics they re- 

 semble the Holsteins, but their smaller size and 

 smaller production do not enable them to compete 

 with the more important breeds. They are kept in 

 small numbers by those who fancy their peculiar 

 markings of form. 



Devons. Devon cattle, as the name indicates, orig- 

 inated in the county of Devon in southwestern Eng- 

 land. They are also found to some extent in Corn- 



