TESTING OF PURE-BRED COWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 13

TESTING OF PURE-BRED COWS.

The April number of the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture points out in an article by Mr W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, that during the first quarter of the present calendar month some 46 cows received certificates under the certificate-of-record system. Perhaps, he said, the most creditable performance noted in the list is that of the junior two-year-old Ayrshire Fair Maid of Greenbank, owned and tested by Mr W. Moore, of flomebush, Masterton. Commencing test at the age of 2 years 27 days, she has gained a C.O.R. for 673.561 b butter-fat. This entitled her to the leadership of the two-year-old Ayrshires, displacing Mr W. Hall’s Dimple of Edendale (529.461 b fat, on a record commenced at • 2 years 327 days). Fair Maid of Greenbank is the only tested daughter of Brown Boy of Riki. Her dam is Bright Smile 4th of Greenbank (also owned and tested by Mr Moore), who has qualified for certificate of record on a yield of 519.621 b fat at 2 years 21 days. Records~~such as these are doing much to bring the Ayrshire breed to that place which it deserves among our specialpurpose dairy breeds. Among the Friesians the highest yield here recorded is that of Dominion Jocrest, who was bred and tested at the Central Development Farm, Weraroa. Her production of 692.701 b butter-fat was made under twice-a-day milking and practically average farm conditions during the whole fieriod. This is the fourth consecutive actation on which Dominion Jocrest has qualified for a first-class 0.0. R. Her sire is the imported Woodcrest Joe, sire of 19 C.O.R. daughters. The highest record in the Jersey section is that of the senior two-year-old Holly Oak Sister Sue, with 671.761 b butter-fat* This heifer was tested bv Mr R. Weinberg, of Nihoniho, and bred By Mr John Hale, New Plymouth. The pedigree of Holly Oak Sister Sue is a particularly strong one, especially on the male side. She is closely related to such proven sires ns Soumise Tom, Sunflower’s Perseus (both champion butter-fat bulls), Molina’s General, Soumise Majesty, and Campanile’s Sultan. Sultan’s Daisy (968.221 b butterfat), at one time New Zealand’s champion C.O.R. Jersey cow, appears twice on the sire s side and four generations back. the list appears the record of the Red Poll cow Wayward 6th B. No 1 who was bred by Sir R. Heaton Rhodes’, Otahuna, Tai Tapu. She was owned and tested by Mr G. S. Young, West Plains, Southland, and has the distinction of being the first privately-owned Rod Poll to qualify for a C.0.R., all previous certificates for this breed having gone to the Central Development Farm herd, Weraroa. Wayward’s record of 511.421 b butter-fat is not only a Red Poll class leadership, but is the highest C.O.R. yet awarded to a representative of the breed in New Zealand. Mr Young is to be congratulated on the result of his first year’s C.O.R. testing. DAIRY CONTROY BOARD. MR F. WAITE -NOMINATED. At the regular meeting of the executive of the South Island Dairy Association, held in Dunedin on Thursday, letters and teloprams were received from several factories m various parts of the South Island and from the provincial secretary of the Southland Farmers’ Union requesting the association to give the producers of the South Island a lead in the matter of supporting a candidate at the present election of a South Island member of the Dairy Control Board. The executive considered the matter, and, having regard\to the claims of the Otago producers to direct representation on board, deoided to nominate Mr -Fred Waite as a oandidat*