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Annual Beltie Magazines
The Belted Galloway Society has produced full-color, 36- to 44-page magazines annually since 2004. An extracts from one of the publications is accessible below. Obtain copies of the most recent printed edition by sending a request with your snail mail address to the Executive Director at Email: executivedirector@beltie.org.
Great old girls
Those
researching pedigrees will note many recurrences of names back in
the early days of U.S. herds. Not surprising! as only a dozen or
so breeders were importing foundation stock from Scotland and England.
Luckily for the future of the breed on this continent, those imports
were carefully selected, top quality animals.
Harry Prock imported the bull Boreland Admiral along with Boreland, Mochrum, Cloburn, Roberton, Whittingehame and Kirkennan females for Hapwood Farm in Whitemarsh, PA.
A.H. Chatfield, Jr. brought in for Aldermere Farm in Rockport, ME the bulls Mochrum Orion and Jamie, as well as Burnside Great Scot and Paramount, along with Lullenden and Whittingehame females.
J.W. Griffith brought in bulls Western Archer, Mark Substance and Boreland Dun Emblem 2nd, plus females from Beeswing, Glenzier and Mark for his Gailwen herds in Longview, TX and Fort Garland, CO.
H. Gordon Green's Green Arpents Farm in Ormstown, Quebec, CAN imported the bull Burnside Hallmark with a Boreland cow and heifer calf.
Dr. A.R.C. Butson of Maple Brae Farms in Ontario, CAN brought in bull Mochrum Colum plus Boreland Phoebe, a long-lived cow that delivered a healthy calf almost every year through age 18.
Frank J. Selke of Rigaud, Quebec imported Beeswing, Lullenden and Mochrum females, later sold to Earl J. Howden of Lytleton, Manitoba who imported the bull Boreland Olympus to service them.
General James A. Van Fleet imported to Withlacoochee Ranch in Florida and Sleepy Creek Farms in Virginia the bulls Mossend Golden Boy and Mochrum Tommy, as well as heifers from the Mossend and Mark herds.
Dick Anderson imported Bolebec Dun Controller along with heifers from the Bolebec and Boreland herds for Anderson Hill Farms in Rutland, VT. These were the last Belted Galloways entering the U.S. before the 1989 ban on live imports was imposed.
Roberton Cowslip,
circa 1950.
Above, Whittingehame
Victoria with Harry Prock in 1948.
[Photos courtesy
of Ron Howard, ME.]
