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F. R. Sanders states 1 that in his own herd in New Hampshire 

 eleven cows made an average of 8579 pounds of milk for eight 

 years, and "one cow produced 12,672 pounds of milk in one year 

 and in six years 60,297 pounds," with an average butter pro- 

 duction of 596 pounds. The only test of this breed which has 

 been reported to the public was in the Pan-American Model Dairy 

 test in 1 90 1, in which ten breeds participated. In this trial the five 

 Dutch Belted cows made the following record in one hundred 

 and twenty days : 



Yield of milk . . . 24,893.5 lb. breed rank, eighth 



Churned butter . 977.1 lb. . breed rank, tenth 



Net profit on butter J( i 1 1 .96 breed rank, tenth 



Total solids . . . 3.066.47 lb. . breed rank, ninth 



Value solids . :S275.g8 . breed rank, ninth 



Dutch Belted milk will test from 4.5 to 5 per cent fat. 



The Dutch Belted as beef producers can hardly be regarded as 

 superior to the dairy breeds and no doubt will not compare favor- 

 ably with the Holstein-Friesian. They lack the size of the latter 

 and do not show the tendency to produce flesh so characteristic 

 of some Holstein-Friesians. Owing to the comparative scarcity 

 of the Dutch Belted, one finds almost, no steers of the breed on 

 the market. A circular of a Connecticut breeder contains a picture 

 of ten steers trained to work as five pairs of oxen one pair of 

 which at four years of age weighed 3200 pounds. 



Dutch Belted crossbreds or grades inherit the striking charac- 

 teristics of the pure-bred sire. Says one breeder : 



Crossed on cattle of any solid color they almost invariably produce the 

 belt, though if the dam be a Devon the calf may be red at the ends ; or if the 

 dam is a Shorthorn, the calf may be red or roan. But the belt of the pure 

 vifhite is there, nevertheless. 



An interesting example of this intensity of Dutch Belted pre- 

 potency took place in the herd of the Ohio State University. 

 A cow of this breed, to the service of a pure-bred Jersey bull, 

 dropped a crossbred calf with a white blanket about the bqr^-', 

 quite similar to that of the dam excepting for one small black 

 spot on the white covering. 



1 Dutch Belted Cattle Bulletin, .-Vpril, 191C. 

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