MANIAROA JERSEY STUD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18848, 28 October 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

MANIAROA JERSEY STUD

HIGH BUTTER FAT RECORDS

Although a new Jersey stud, Mr. Harry Cooper’s Mnniaroa Jerseys have achieved high butt erf at production, and the farm, for one* of its size, leads the Poverty Bay district for but l erf at per acre.

In founding this stud, Air. Cooper has concentrated -on butterfat production. The first herd sire, Elgin Equipment, had remarkable success in leaving high-producing stock, and during the 1955-54 season 10 of this bull’s 2-year-old heifers averaged 5151 b. in a herd average of 3681 b. fat by 47 cows. This was the best herd production from over 40 cows recorded by the Poverty Bay Group Herd Testing Association since its inauguration up to that time. Mr. Cooper has not participated in the group test since then, but lie has yearly added more cows to his herd, and the farm production has been raised on the average of 30001 b. of butterfat each year since the foundation of the herd in 1930-51 until it has reached 2251 b. of butterfat per acre. A further increase is being shown this year, in spite of the backward spring conditions. It is now nearly a cow-to-the-acre farm, and and this season there are 7S milking cows. The total area of the farm is 82 acres, including .18 acres of lucerne, to which a further three acres is being added this year.

The present herd sire, Finvoy Oxford Lad, is a son of Messrs. Carroll and Cooper’s Finvoy Golden Oxford, and the dam, Pincwood’s Viola Girl, was sired by Viola’s Golden Laddie, who left many high-producing (laughters up to Ss2lb. fat, C.O.R. Maniaroa’s Oxford Lad, a son' of Finvoy Oxford Lad, took first prize as a yearling at the Gisborne show last year, and other young stock from this bull shows great promise.