MILK PRODUCTION.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume XVIII, 6 October 1931, Page 1

MILK PRODUCTION.

NEW RECORDS. The extent to which the productivestandard of New Zealand dairy cattle is being raised is strikingly exemplified by the yields of three junior two-year-old Jersey heifers which have all in the one season broken a Dominion record that has stood for several years. With the steady improvement in the butter-fat ability of our cattle, it is only natural that fresh records should be from time to time created, but for one record to be broken in three different places in the same season is a happening absolutely unique. A short time ago the Auckland owned Jersey heifer, Coniston Goldie, the property of Mr. R. Waterhouse, Papakura, gained a great dual success by capturing the New Zealand championship of her breed for a junior two-year-old and the premiere of all breeds with the remarkable return of 7421 b fat. No sooner had the Papakura-owned heifer completed her splendid record then along came two other youngsters that, while just failing to reach her figures, both exceeded the record of 7311 b fat that for many years has stood as the New Zealand record.

The first of this pair was Ashton Olive’s Pet, the property of Mr. R. L. Parkin, Bell Block, Taranaki, which produced no less than 7371 b fat. Actually this heifer yielded more milk than her Auckland rival, who, however, had an advantage in test. To have actually exceeded the previous New Zealand record by approximately 61b fat and then to have only second place among the heifers of the year was certainly hard luck for the Bell Block breeder. And unlucky also is Mr. A. L. Hooper, Waitara, whose splendid little

heifer, Bridgeview Jersey Queen, also smashed the old record by giving 7341 b fat, to take only third place among the great junior two-year-olds of the year. With the exception of the last four or five weeks, Corniston Goldie was milked only twice a day, but the records of Ashton Olive’s Best and Bridgeview Jersey Queen are even more creditable by virtue of the fact that they were milked only twice a day right through the period of their respective tests.