POLLED ANGUS BULL FOR MASTERTON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2857, 16 December 1908, Page 23

POLLED ANGUS BULL FOR MASTERTON.

There was shipped on the Bth by the s.s. Victoria * very fine Aberdeen polled Angus bull from Messrs Murray, " Roberts, and ■Co.'s herd at Gladbrook, Middlemarcn, to the order of Mr Hume, of Masterton, North Island. Japan is just two years old. «md has for dam the fine breeding cow • Chance, by Baron Arradoul (imp.); grand dam Merry Maiden TV, by Lancer of . Adrie (imp.) ; g-g-dam Merry Maiden ■ (imp.). Merry Maiden is descended from the old Roses of Advie, who were the foundation of the famous Advie herd. Both Chance and Merry Maiden IV have been successful prize winners — at Dunedin Merry Maiden IV having won the champion certificate on two occasions and also i?« %t jwi«e*j. Lgßce§ gjL Atili* « out

>f the Highland Society's champion Ladybird) and also by <a Highland Society winner, Rustler. Japan has for sire the now well known bull Eblis of Ballindalloch. He is a Ballindalloch Erica, and has almost an unbeaten show yard record. Starting at Perth, Scotland, as a 'yearling he there beat the Highland Society winm«r, and, since coming to the Dominion, he has won five first prizes and four champion certificates. He is a rare breeding bull, and is sire of this year's champion at Dunedin. Japan resembles hie noble 6ire very much, not big, but full of quality, deep and well sprung in ribs, has a beautiful head, and is just the sort of sire to put quality into any herd. He has passed the tuberculine , test, as all bulls and heifers sent from Gladbrook -have to do.