SEMI-OFFICIAL RECORDS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 7

SEMI-OFFICIAL RECORDS

In the January issue of the Journal oi. Agriculture the following appear in a list of certificate of record cows who completed in December. Commenting on these, Mr Singleton says, inter alia: ' 'The larger proportion of tße cows commenced their lactation period later in the milking season than, was the ca.se with the animals appearing in recently published lists. The present records represent the production of quite a number of yearlings in" the junior two-year-old clasr. When the age is considered it must be conceded that many of these productions are very creditable. Jerseys. From the point of view of maximum production and, margin over requirement to qualify the yield of Hill Belle merits special reference. Sho is a daughter oi Eminent Fontine (imp ) who now has twenty-one C.O.R. daughters. Her dam was Silver Light, a daughter of Starlight, an,d therefore halt-sister to Sabean 111., who has a C.O.R. fqr 625.381b butter-fat Silver Light is also half-sister to S^rlight !♦•• «>e s?«"e of Floss V.," who lias a t.O.R. i<u-. 621.401b butter-vat, Fiiogians,. » Queen Cqlantha Cadrlac has \\iq distinction of being the only animal in this list in the GOQ|I» butter-fat class, she was tested as a senior two-year-S,™' is by a son of King Segis \Vild Hose Homestead from Friesland I ark Colantha Cadilac, a daughter of jJutchland Colantha Cadilac "* (imp.). Queen Colantha Cadilac is a line-bred cow, since King Segis Wild Rose Homestead appears as her grandsire on her •sire's side and as great-grandsire on her dams side. Her pedigree shows »/} per cent from North American strains, including Colantha Johanna i^ad. Ihe three nearest dams of , Queen Colantha Cadilac have each been on test and have produced well. Another good record in the senior two- , year-old class is that of Martha Johanna Rue. She traces entirely to North American strains, being daughter of Mutual Piebe of Rock (imp.) from Martha Elgin Pauline II (imp). Her sire and dam were both sired by Mutual Piebe de Kol who has produced many high-record daughters, including Mutual Pearl of Rock, who in the ordinary course will shortly complete the calvino- requirement for a C.O.R. for 903.441A\ VutterXafi. ' ' ' ■ '^In the senior four-year-olds Willem's Koe do Kol has annexed a very creditable record. She is by Colantha Sir \Vinana (imp.), and thus traces through his sire Colantha Johanna: Lad to the tfigh.-record cow Colantha's IV. X* Jo-, •kann^ who. was, ?t one #me ; ft« world's

leader with a credit of 998.261b. butterfat. JERSEYS. Junior Two-year-olds. Mr W. T. Luxton's (Waitara) Melia Ann's Rose, 467.95 lbs of fat; 7644.4 Jbs of milk in 365 days. Mr James Nicolson's (Kapokonui) Aster's Fair Lady, 457.31 —9577.0 in 364 days. Mr V. H. Nowei's (Hawera) Aureola, 408.7 —7174 in 365 days. Three-year old. A. C. Lovelock's (Woodville) Hill Belle, 587.27—9355.2 in 365 days. Mr James Nicolson's (Kaupokonui) Aster's Vanity, 473.0—8234.8 in 365 clays. Four-year-old. R. J. Linn's (Xormanby) Olga's Sweetheart, 432.21—7282.6 in' 273 days. FRIESIANS. Senior two-year-olds. W. I. Lovelock's (Pahnerston North) Queen Colantha Cadilac, 614.97 — 15.887.5 in 365 days. Senior four-year-old. W. I. Lovelock's (Piilmenston North) Willems Ko de Kol, 556.49—15,023.2 in 365 days. MILKING SHORTHORNS. Mature. D. H. Kilgour's (Feilding) Pitlochic jQueoni, 584.01—14.217.9 in 365 days.