Valuable Dairy Stock.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7790, 15 March 1904, Page 5

Valuable Dairy Stock.

Imported from America.

A very valuable addition to the dairy Stock of Manawatu has mst been made by the arrival in Palmerston of three heifers and a bull of the HolsteinFuesian breed of cattle, which Messrs W. McKenzie and W. J. Lovelock, of Fitzherbert East, have imported from America. The importers have spared no expense in securing animals of tbe very blu-s; blood, with pedigrees as long as one's arm, whilst the practical records of the dams are of the highest class, lhe heifers are two-year-olds and comprise :- (No 217) Ethel of Deihurst 2nd. dam Nethorland Andre Hamming De Kol (record 15.51 at 4 years), sire p au l D e £ ol flf Delhurst • (ISo. 297), dam Mentor Maid of Delburst (record 15.92), sire Paul De Kol of Delhurst; (No. 259) Lady De .Eol of Delhurst 2nd, dum Lady of Delhurst sire Royal Paul. These all came from the Eastern States of America, and hud to be railed over three thousand miles to San Francisco before being shipped to New Zealand. They are bred to a son of Mercedes Piervertj* Julioe, ». cow wb-: e h was sold at auction at Utica New _ork, only last July for two thousand dollars. She held the world's seven days ndvanced register butter record ot 291 bs sozs. until recently beaten by S.idie Vale Concordia, so that to-day she holds second place jis the be3t cow in America. The bull is Isobel of Riverside, dam Minnewa^a Isobel (record 19.13). sire A. and G. De Kol Butter Boy (dam's record over 23ibs). He is not yet two years old, and promises to furnish into a very fine animal. They all, of course, show signs of the extremely long journey and the ordeal they have been through, and it will take some little time to becorce acclimatised aud fully recover themselves. Messrs McKenzie and Lov.. lock are to be congratulated ou (lie safe arrival of such valuable animals, and we trust their enterprise will meet with the reward it certainly deserve. The cattle were shipped from • 'Frisco through the agency of the N.Z.L. & M, Co.