IS IT A RECORD?
500 LBS FAT PER HEIFER. With an average of 502.31bs iat for each heifer, a world's record is claimed by Mr W. J. Freeth, Pukearuhe, with his 20 heifers under Government C.O.D. test during the last three seasons. The heifers, all bred and tested at Ngahiwi, were by six different sires bred by Mr Freeth. They were milked twice a day and never housed, and the only extra food they received was a small allowance of bran rising to a maximum of six ounces per day during the winter, given dry. The heifers were pastured the year through, on well top-dressed pasture with special paspalum paddocks for the autumn.
The average of 502.411bs fat for the whole 20 should work out at over 700 lbs at maturity. “Taranaki News.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 12
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133IS IT A RECORD? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 12
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