. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fig. 368. Dutch Belted bull, Auten, 495. Once champion bull of the breed in America. the idea of breeding animals of all kinds to a cer- tain color, chiefly with a broad band of white in the center of the body, with black ends. These noblemen had large estates, and it is said that for more than 100 years they and their descendants worked on the perfection of these peculiar color- markings, until they produced belted cattle, pigs, and poultry. That these breeders were wonderfully successful, no one questions, as we have the result
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. Fig. 368. Dutch Belted bull, Auten, 495. Once champion bull of the breed in America. the idea of breeding animals of all kinds to a cer- tain color, chiefly with a broad band of white in the center of the body, with black ends. These noblemen had large estates, and it is said that for more than 100 years they and their descendants worked on the perfection of these peculiar color- markings, until they produced belted cattle, pigs, and poultry. That these breeders were wonderfully successful, no one questions, as we have the results of their labors in the Dutch Belted cattle, Laken- velder poultry of England and America, the Lan- cheswine of Holland and Germany and the Hamp- shire swine of America, which were supposed to originate in Hampshire, England, but undoubtedly are the descendants of the Haarlem herds of long ago. All of these breeds possess a belt, and carry out the idea of their originators in a marvelous degree. The process by which these unparalleled results were attained seems to be hidden in the obscurity of the past; however, it is not difficult to under- stand that many years of careful selection might culminate in the desired end. There seems to be some doubt, even in Holland, as to the method employed to produce such distinct color-markings, and nothing 'i the animal world shows more skill in breeding than the results of the Hollanders in the reduction of the different breeds, so strongly bred to distinct color lines. In America.— Dutch Belted cattle were first imported to America in 1838. D. H. Haight was the largest importer. He made his first importa- tion in 1838, and a later one in 1848. His herd became scattered over Orange county, N. Y., until one will find a great many belted cows in every township in that county today. Hon. Robert W. Coleman also imported a large herd to place on his estate at Cornwall, Pa. The Dutch Belted cattle in America today are entirely descended from
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