BUTTER-FAT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11704, 17 December 1923, Page 6

BUTTER-FAT

HEAVY PRODUCTION RECORDS CLAIMED. ■ Ber Press Association. INVERCARGILL, December 15. A splendid record of the butter-fat achievements is published of a dairy herd belonging to Mr W. H. Hunt and the progeny of the sire Rosewater King. The first six daughters of this bull to calve were placed under a test, the average butter-fat test being 4.14 per cent. Unfortunately, after producing 526.871ba of fat in a period of nine months, one died. Had she completed her test the six two-year-olds easily would have averaged over 6001 b of bUtter-fat. Actually they averaged 14,152.31 b of milk and 586.171 b of but-ter-fat, or more than three and one half times the production of the average New Zealand cow. It is also announced that one of the sires bred by Mr Hunt now has ten tested daughters. one of which has broken the New Zealand record for senior four-year-olds by producing 23,203.81 b of milk of an average test of 3.92 and 910.531 b of butter-fat, while two others have given over 7001 bof fat. Another daughter has given over 6001 b, and three others over 6001 b, all as heifers. Since the olose of the 1922 season eighteen Friesian* completed records at Bainfield, which average 612.31'b but-ter-fat for 365 days, and all but one of these are heifers. To date twenty Bainfield Friesians averaged 718.81 b of butter-fat, and ten produced over 2000 gallons in a year, a performance unequalled in any other part of the Empire.