Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-08-19
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DUTCH
OR HOLSTEIN CATTLE NOW IN
THE UNITED STATES.
(Continucd from first layc.)

gOOu HOW Oh llllk Ten OF tItNtn months, Wltll
proper food. Their butter is colorcd us
highly rs that produced by the Jerseys, and
think is finer favored. The bulls are also
quiet and gentle, so much so that never had
to put II ring in the nose to handle them ut
any age. They are fast walkers and the
grades make the finest working oxen have
ever seen, being generally black and white,
and often have black ends with white belt
around the body. | have one cow
that has n calf twelve days old that has given
for the past week an average of 40 pounds of
milk day, and one with u calf fifteen DAYS
old that has averaged 53t pounds II day. and
they travel half mile to- pasture and have
no feed but what they get there" In n letter
to me dated July |, 1871, he says of these
cows, " l tested the milk one week and the
result was 34} pounds of as good yellow but
ter as ever was seen. Last season had
two-year-old heifer from each of those cows
come to milk, and one of them was ut Man
chester, and took diploma and first premium.
To show how true they breed | tested their
milk by weighing every mess for month";
and they each gave an average of 35 pounds
II day, and they held out until they calved in
SPRING"
Mr.. Thomas Baker, of Barton, VT, bought
several full blooded animals of the late Car
los Pierce, of Stanstead, p. O., and, with
those he has bred, has about 25 head have
often seen them in his stables and made in
quiries in regard to their merits and find it
II repetition of the high praise this breed in
variably receives.
Lady Bellows 2d was giving, the second
week in July, the present year. so 81
pounds of milk per day, and was MIXED
twice II day. She was kept with thirty head
of other COWS, and had no extra chance, and
the season had been II remarkable dry one
Lady Bellows had been MIXED thirteen
months, and went dry only two weeks before
calving.
His full bloods and grades, rs calves, year
ling and two-year-ods, make very rapid
growth, and grade hcifers that have come to
milk are uniformly good.
So from the Jarvis stock there is one herd
ut the present time that is pure, and the two
herds of Mr. Bellows and Mr.. Baker probl-
bly, numbering 40 head that are pure Dutch.
y. p. Ball, Esq, and perhaps others near
Derby Line, have few head
As has been shown, no pedigree is kept in
Holland, but the animals are selected for
their good qualities. The animals from the
Orange County Milk Association were not II
cross, but the same blood not closely related
In regard to those cattle | have IL letter from
the Secretary of the Orange County Agrcul-
tural Society, ID. A. Morrison, dated July %,
1871. He says: "Scveral years ago, Mr.. ID.
II. lIaight, of Goshen n. Y, imported the
Dutch or belted cattle into this country from
Holland These cattle are quite numerous in
the vicinity of Goshen, and they are to be
found in other sections Of the country. They
are much priced for their superior milking
qualities. Mr.. Haight made several impor-
tations." No correct estimate can be made
ut this time of the number of full bloods in
that section.
1t is considered desirable by all breeder.
to have animals from different families in
commencing herd upon any farm, and thi,
Will further appear us we speak of other i'm
portations. 1t is probable that the principal