PEDIGREE BULLS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 3

PEDIGREE BULLS

NEW REGISTRATION SCHEME By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, September 5. An entirely new scheme of registration of pedigree bulls was propounded at the annual meeting of the Southland branch of the Ayrshire breeders to-day, when a remit to the half-yearly meeting at Palmerston North in November was passed proposing that registered bulls should be classified into groups based on standard of production of their dams or of their progeny. The president, Mr. A. M. Weir, who brought the remit forward, suggested that two groups be provided—viz., Class AA, being bulls from dams who have recorded C.O.R. herd-testing standard and who sires dams who have also recorded the minimum standard of production, namely, 2551 b. fat as a two-year-old, 275 as a three-year-old, 325 as a four-year-old, 350 as a mature cow, or whose sire has sired 50 per cent of progeny who have qualified as producers or whose records reach C.O.R. standard; and Class A bulls, from dams whose records reach above the minimum standard of production.