PUREBRED SIRE AND DAM.
Those farmers who have rather dim ideae as to the influence of breed over feed will have considerable trouble to masticate the following simple item concerning the class of Guernsey cows that have been qualified in the Advanced Registry The number of cows thus qualifying up to the last classification is 2,568. Their average production of milk was 8,456 56lbs. with 423,21b5. of' butter fat. The
average richness of their milk was over 5 per cent. This splendid result was achieved, it must be remembered, with a very considerable number of heifers in their first milking period This is an amount of butter-fat which represents aD equivalent in butter of nearly £500—all that has come through the registered eire channel, Such figures ought to stir every user of a grade sire aut of his atujjid rut, — "Stock and Station Gazette,"
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PUREBRED SIRE AND DAM., Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXII, Issue 4399, 29 May 1914
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144PUREBRED SIRE AND DAM. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXII, Issue 4399, 29 May 1914
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