RECORD BUTTERFAT YIELD

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 10

RECORD BUTTERFAT YIELD

TEN COWS AVERAGE 536L8 A magnificent average of 536.191b of butterfat has been recorded by 10 pedigree Jersey cows owned by Mr R. K. Garland, of Okauia (Auckland), under c.o.r. test for 1932-33 season, covering 365 days. Details are as follow: Senior two-year-olds: Tyntesfield Zoe, 6901b fat; Tyntesfield Sultane,

612.581b fat; Tyntesfield Pansy Flower, 507.601b fat; average 603.91b fat. Junior two-year-olds: Tyntesfield Barbara, 544.241b fat; Tyntesfield Rose Marie, 488.733b fat; Tyntesfield Quicksilver, 4831b fat; average 505.32 ib fat. The above were daughters of Coniston Conqueror. Another of this bull's daughters previously tested gave 742.011b fat as a junior two-year-old which makes a grand average for the seven tested daughters (all under two years) of 581.371b of butterfat. Three junior two-year-old heifers in the herd, daughters of Brampton Standard You'll Do, tested as followsTyntesfield 80-Peep, 520.121b fat; Tyntesfield Pixie, 501.821b fat; Tyntesfield Standard Dot, 460.121b fat; average, 4941b fat. These were the only daughters of this bull which could be tested owing to the lateness of the season.

Another cow (matured) by a diflaot sire did 558.121b fat, making a grand average over the ten cows undqr test for the season of 536.191b a New Zealand record for a herd.: At the low price of 8d a lb butterfat each cow returned within a-shilling or two of £lB, payable even in these times of disastrous prices.