14 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 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- 
