44 THE dairyman's makual. 



handled, more desirable for the private dairy, or the 

 business dairy when butter is the object desired. 



The Dutch Belted or Blanketed Cattle are na- 

 tives of Holland, having the black and white colors of 

 the so called Holstein-Friesian breed, but curiously dis- 

 posed, so that the white is distributed, not in patches, 

 but in a broad belt around the middle of the body. These 

 cows have been carefully bred by the wealthier Dutch 

 people for more than a century. They have been kept in 

 the Orange County, New York, dairies many years, where 

 they have acquired a high local reputation as profitable 

 cows for milk and for butter. They are also kept in 

 considerable herds in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and 

 are sufficiently numerous to have required a herd book 

 for recording their pedigrees. These cattle are smaller 

 than the largest North Holland (Holstein-Friesian), con- 

 sume less food, and are more suitable for the average 

 dairy farm where the pastures are not rich or luxuriant 

 enough to support the larger and rnore exacting breed. 

 But this smaller cow is considered as very desirable, 

 where milk for sale is the point aimed at. 



The Swiss Cattle are noted for the dairy as good 

 producers of milk, butter, and cheese. Switzerland is 

 essentially a dairy country, and its pastures are of the 

 greenest and the richest. Consequently its cows have 

 been bred and cherished for many years with the greatest 

 care. Pastures make cows, while the cows turn the 

 pastures into rich products. Hence in such luxuriant 

 pastures as those of Switzerland excellent cotvs may 

 reasonably be expected. Their domestication is so com- 

 plete that the disposition of Swiss cattle is docile, 

 and gentleness is one of their marked characteristics. 

 This again reacts upon the productive character, and 

 thus the Swiss cows are very desirable dairy animals. 

 Some of them were imported into Massachusetts a 

 few years ago, and were found very well adapted 



