AYRSHIRE BREEDERS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 5

AYRSHIRE BREEDERS

TARANAKI CLUB’S YEAR MEMBERS’ ANNUAL MEETING. PROGRESSIVE PERIOD REVIEWED. The annual meeting of the Taranaki Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ Club was held at New Plymouth on Friday, Air VV. Hall presiding over an attendance of 30 members.

In its report, the committee acknow- j ledged the co-operation and enthusi- j asm of the members, the club being I thus enabled to fulfil another year of, usefulness and progressiveness. With- j out doubt the year had been the most, i interesting and important the club had j experienced since it s .formation in ' March, 1926. Probably the most im- j portant event was the annual meeting ! and conference of the parent associa- j tion- at New Plymouth. The local j president of the club, Mr W. Hall, j was elected to the presidency of the | New Zealand Ayrshire Cattle Breed-1 ers’ Association. | A most successful club sale was fob; lowed by the outstanding exhibit of i Ayrshire cattle at the Hawera. jubilee! show and a. still greater display at the 1 Taranaki show. At the former show the ! breed won premier honours in the cheese competition against eight com-1 petitions of other breeds, at the Tara-; naki show the breed gained first andj second places in a. class of 23 oompeti-; tors of all breeds for the champion i dairy cow. An innovation at the lat-' ter show was the introduction of an! Ayrshire judge from the South Island. Members of the committee had visited ( breeders and owners of Ayrshire cattle j throughout the northern and central, parts of Taranaki. They found that dairy fanners who had made purchases of Ayrshire cattle were highly pleased ! with them. | The call on the club’s limited funds j had been heavier than usual. This was! attributable largely to the expenses in' connection with the social gatherings i arranged by the committee in con nee- j tion with the annual meeting of. the; New Zealand Ayrshire Association. The• expenditure had exceeded the income: by £9 15f Bd, so that the credit bub, a nee at the close of the yean- was £l2; 12s 4d, against £22.' 8s at the close last i year. Three members had been added: to the roll, bringing the. number to 19. | Fifteen members had paid their sub-; script ions for the year. The thanks <> F I the club were due to the parent body' for financial support and prompt at-j ten tion. to all requests, and to the j Press. The committee expressed its i thanks to members of the club for loyal j support, and assistance. : BREED ACHIEVEMENTS j

In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet the chairman congratulated members on having had the most .successful Ayrshire year since the inception of the club. All the farmers visited by the committee had appeared well .satisfied with Ayrshires they had purchased. He reviewed the achievements of the breed at the Hawera. and New Plymouth shows and said that the breed had also shown well at Stratford. At the New Plymouth show the judge had said the Ayrshires were the .best exhibit he had ever judged, and the Governor-General had said it wa.s the best display of Ayrshires he had seen in New Zealand. Mr Hall said it had been gratifying to find the cheese factories visited were recognising the value of Ayrshires for special iv.:rooses. “We claim that from a cheese point of view the Ayrshire is unrivalled,” said Mr Hall. Tn America, be continued, experiments, had proved that the milk from Ayrshires was unrivalled both from a. cheese and consumption aspect. He suggested the Royal Coinmission on the industry might intpiiie into this subject. Farmers knew that there were different kinds of horses—trotters, gallopers, etc.--and lie claimed that different breeds of cows bad their particular purposes, too. obis dub claimed the Ayrshire was unrivalled in; its sphere. . * The motion for adoption was carried after being seconded by Mr J. O. Morton. • _ Mr R. W. H. Robertson revolted on a tour be and Mr A. R. Olaridge, Toko, had made of eight or nine herds m Central Taranaki. They had been most hospitably received, he said, and they had seen some fine Ayrshire cattle. Mi Clarid"e supplemented the report. Mr Fred Mills, Hawera, congratulated the club on its. successful year. The greatest benefits were yet to come, he said. Breeders rcognised that Ayrshire® did not develop a.s quickly as some other breeds, but they went on improving year by year, so that pnehasera would become more and more satisfied with their cows as steady producers. 'Mr Mills appea led for bet on support from the northern end of the province for the Hawera show- an application had gone forward for the allocation of the North Island championship to the next Hawera show. Asa representative of the parent body he congratulated the New Plymouth club on the arrangements for the annual conference at New Plymouth. The chairman. referring to Mr Mills ■ statement regarding the development I of theAyrshire; said there was no cion at the breed was slow to mature, hut against that it lasted much longer n this connection lie referred to the _u < 'achievement of Mr Mills’ 16-year-old i row in winning the trophy for the best ( dairy cow at the New Plymouth show.

Ho himself had had a cow that- was still producing when it at- the ace of *M this year; when 17 years old it had won the Ayrshire championship at the New Plymouth show. : 'he breeder who strove to improve all the time was a credit te the province and of the whole Dominion. He urged that no pettv jealousies should he allowed, but that successful breeders should he congratulated freely, and air endeavour rrtade to emulate them. The awards were:

Mr Fred Mills. Hawera. Cambrian Company’s C'up for the best dairy cow in tire show; also miniature cup for the champion Ayrshire cow in the show.

Mr H. H. Olson, New Plymouth, F. A. Bremer Memorial Challenge Gup presented by Mrs Bremer in 1933 for most -points in the pedigree Ayrshire section. Having secured the trophy on three occasions, Mr Olson has won the cup outright. Mr Fred Weston, AVaitara, Taranaki A. and P. Society’s miniature cup for champion Ayrshire buii:

Officers were elected as follows: President. Mr W. Hall; vice-president, Mr R. W. I). Robertson; committee, Messrs Fred Mills juiir.. A. AVe r, J. O. Morton, A. G. Hall, H. H. Olson, A. R. Olaridge and H. F. Olson. New "members were Messrs H. F. Olson (Eouiont Village). Eric James (Koritoi. To Julian (Okato) and AVeir Bros., Fitzroy. The -o retary (Air AA T . P. Okey) was voted an honorarium of £7 7s. Mr K. Kirk discussed matters relating to the club’s sale. He said this year’s entries (92 head) constituted a record for Ayrshire sales in Taranaki and. he thought, for Ayrshire-sales- in the Dominion. The entries represented most of the Taranaki herds. A large attendance was expected, Ayrshires having acquired a Dominion-wide repu. tation through the results of their testing. A suggestion bv Mr Iv.rk that- there should be a smoke concert in connection with the sale was discussed, but .lie proposal was not favoured. TROPHIES PRESENTED.

C. Sampson, president of the Taranaki A. and P. Society, presented trophies won at the .show.-He hoped the club would nr-osper and advance tha interests of the breed, he said. Though lie was a Jersey man he could recognise and admire a good cow of any breed. He realised that it took all breeds to make a .show, and be thanked Ayrshire breeders or their support of the New Plymouth fixture. The showing of various types enabled farmers to* - compare the’different breeds.