Top Milking Shorthorn
Anather Canterbury dairyman has won a high honour, this time with a Milking Shorthorn cow born in July, 1959. The farmer is Mr L. N. Sandrey, who has the Valley View stud at Mount Somers. He was awarded the challenge cup of the New Zealand Milking Shorthorn Association at its annual meeting in Hamilton recently for the Shorthorn cow producing the most butterfat in the 1966-67 season.
Mr Sandrey's entry, Valley View Viola, produced 16,9401 b of milk and 8021 b of fat in 305 days with a test of 4.7. This season Valley View Viola, which is of Mr Sandrey’s own breeding, has 6171 b of butterfat to her credit with two tests to go and should not be far short of 7001 b of fat in a period in which there was 18 inches of snow in November and a good deal of cold and wet weather since.
silver sugar bowl miniature at the annual meeting at which mention was made of several other high-producing cows in Mr Sandrey’s herd. At the yearling sale held recently by the Waikato Milking Shorthorn Breeders’ Association Mr Sandrew bought two heifers from the Royal •Decide stud in Hamilton and one from the Cambria stud.
The photograph shows Valley View Viola at the end of her lactation last season.
Mr Sandrey was presented with the challenge cup and a
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 7
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