NEWS AND NOTES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES

RIGHT TYPE OF COW Antimony’s Trixie of Belle Vue, a 17y car-old purebred Jersey owned by J. Moore and Co., of Hooloonook, Yarram, Victoria, recently produced her fourteenth calf. She has 29 female descendants entered in the stud register. Antimony s Trixie of Belle Vue was nine years old wnen entered in the standard herd test, ai.d yielded 4791 b butterfat. For seven 'ears she averaged 4291 b, and last season, when 16 years old, yielded 3631 b butterfat in 273 days. BOTH PARTIES LIABLE The fact that both vendor and consumer were liable to prosecution for selling and buying milk at less than the fixed price was stressed at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, when a vendor was under crossexamination concerning allegations that he had sold milk to consumers at less than the fixed price. TEN GALLONS A DAY Terling Graceful 10th, a British Friesian cow bred and owned by Lord Rayleigh’s Farms, Essex, is the twentyfourth cow of her breed to yield upwards of 3000 gallons of milk in not more than 365 days. Her production, since calving in February last, is 3001 gallons in 270 days, and her daily output is still 10 gallons. Born in May; 1931, she has calved five times and has produced in all 9970 gallons of milk. Her four previous yields, all in lactation periods of less than 365 days, were 1078, 1949, 1727 and 2213 gallons. JERSEYS IN AUSTRALIA Jersey breeders have reason to be proud of the important position occupied by their stock in the dairy industry of Australia. This fact is emphasised in the 1938 Jersey Stud Book of Australia, just issued by the Federal Council of the Australian Jersey Herd Society. It is the 25th volume, and is the largest yet published by the society; it contains the registration of 974 bulls and 4866 cows, a grand total of 5840 ,or approximately 800 more than last year’s total, and 200 ahead of the previous best figure. CHILLED BEEF CHAMPIONSHIP In the New Zealand chilled beef championship conducted by the Wanganui A. and P. Association the beast exhibited by Mr K. Duncan was placed first on the showgrounds, second at the Imlay works, and second at Smithfield market, London. Mr T. A. Duncan won the championship, which is decided on the aggregate of points at the three judgings.