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head, including some 70 bulls and 700 breeding cows. The breed association resumed registrations in 2013. In 2016 the total Dutch Belted population was reported to
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in number. It became well-known as a useful dairy breed, but numbers never rose very high. With the rapid spread of the
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stock into the United States was in 1838, when D.H. Haight brought some to
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