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Dutch Belted

noun

  1. one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.



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Jersey, Hereford and Dutch Belted cows contribute a steady stream of it, which flows into various packaged products, including 16 flavors of ice cream.

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Among breeds well known in the United States2 and not mentioned above, the more important are the Holsteins, large black and white cattle highly valued for their abundant milk production, and the Dutch Belted breed, black with a broad white band round the body, also good milkers.

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A strange freak also manifested itself in our other herd that summer; first one of our Black Dutch belted heifers, and then several others took to gnawing the bark from young trees in their pasture and along the lanes to the barn.

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We also made a sticky wash, of which Cayenne was the chief ingredient, for the trunks of the young trees along the lanes and in the orchard, and after getting a taste of it, neither the Black Dutch belted heifers nor the hogs did any further damage.

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An interesting example of skill in breeding is seen in Dutch belted varieties of cattle, in hogs, rabbits, cavies and mice.

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