C36—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, June 7, 1980
Swatara Springs ‘Bellies \ a cow of a
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG Close to
1«0 black and white cattle
dot the well-trimmed
pastures of Richard and
Emory Stein’s farms.
But, unlike most black and
white cows grazing
southeastern Pennsylvania
fields, these cattle are not
the popular German breed,
the Holsteins.
The Stein cattle are unique
to the area and the entire
state. These black and
white’s are a distinct breed
called Belted Galloways and
Dutch Belted.
A quick glance at these
animals will tell even the
untrained eye that this is a
cow of a different color, or
more correctly, a different
marking.
As their name implies, the
Belted Galloways and the
Dutch Belted cattle wear a
white “belt” around their
middles. The rest of the
animal is pure black.
Standing next to a drowsy Brown Swiss, this Dutch Belted cow, a dairy breed
from Holland, shows off her unusual markings.
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As Richard Stein, the
owner of Swatara Springs
Farm explained, the Dutch
Belteds are a dairy breed
imported from Holland. The
Belted Galloways, he said,
were originally imported
from Scotland and England
and are a beef-type animal.
STein told Lancaster
Farming that his father,
Emory, was in the dairy
business until the four-lane
highway. Route 283, bisected
his farm. After the highway
divided his farm in two, the
elder Stein decided to sell off
his cattle.
“The big bam just sat idle
then,” recalled Richard,
until about nine years ago
when I bought my first
Belted Galloways from
General James A. Van
Fleet’s herd at Sleepy Creek
Farm, Virginia.”
Four heifers and a bull
made their way to their new
home in Pennsylvania, and
from that time on Stein was
booked on the unique black
and whites.
According to Stein, the
first Belted Galloway cattle
were imported into the U.S.
by a man named Harry A.
Prouk. Around 1948, six
heifers and a bull named
Boreland Admiral arrived
from the British Isles to their
quarantine station in
Canada.
After undergoing another
thirty day quarantine at a
Canadian farm, Prouk was
allowed to finally bring them
into the U.S. Prouk picked up
the cattle in a padded horse
van, and the cattle were led
down a ramp covered with
red carpet to take their first
steps on American soil.
Prouk, who lived near
Philadelphia, insisted his
Betties had no white feet and
their white belts had to be
uniform and not too wide.
These first seven head of
Belted Galloway cattle
started the American import
of the British registered
animals. Others, like
General Van Fleet, added to
the growing numbers
through more expensive,
tedious imports.
From his four original
heifers and the bull named
Sleepy Creek Lord Fairfax,
Stem has built his herd of
championship cattle.
Stein speaks fondly of this
first bull that still grazes in
the lower pasture and keeps
about forty of his cows
company. “He is so gentle
and has such a good
disposition, you can feed him
apples out of your hand.”
Stein boasts about Lord
Fairfax’s pedigree while
pointing to a beautifully
framed picture of the bull.
The bull, he said, is out of
parents imported directly
from Scotland. His sire is the
famous Mossend Golden Boy
who has more champion
offspring to his name than
any other Beltie bull in the
country, Stem said.
Sten has numerous
championship ribbons
stacked neatly in a card
board box reminders of
the thrill of victory at the
State Fair of Virginia and
the Eastern National over a
four-year showing career.
Very carefully he unravels
a banner from the Virginia
Fair of 1972. Against fading
purple, the words Supreme
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