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Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the New England states ; a 

 few are found in the South and several small herds are to be 

 found on the Pacific coast. 



Dairy Characteristics. The cattle of this breed are re- 

 puted to be excellent milkers. A few cows hold records of 

 over 400 pounds of butter per year. At the Pan-American 

 Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, five Dutch Belted cows were 

 entered in the cow test in competition with the same number 

 of cows of nine other breeds. While the five cows of this 

 breed came out last in the test, they made a very creditable 

 showing. The average production per cow for this breed 

 was 4978 pounds of milk and 169.4 pounds of butter fat 

 during the six months' trial. The average per cent of fat 

 was 3.4. One breeder in New York, after keeping yearly 

 records for eight years, reports twenty-five cows and heifer 

 averaged 9000 pounds of milk for one year. A New Hamp- 

 shire breeder reports eleven cows in his herd, making an 

 average of 8579 pounds of milk in one year. One cow in 

 this herd produced 12,672 pounds of milk in one year and 

 60,297 pounds in a period of six years with an average butter 

 production during the same length of time of 596 pounds. 



Herd Association. The Dutch Belted Association which 

 was organized in America in February, 1886, has registered 

 between 2000 and 3000 animals. In Holland, the cattle of 

 this breed are registered in the Netherland General Staur- 

 buck, published at the Hague. 



FRENCH-CANADIAN 



This breed is descended from the native cattle of the prov- 

 ince of Normandy and Brittany, France, and is very closely 

 related to the Guernsey and Jersey breed on this account. 



