PROSPECTIVE CHAMPION

Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 12

PROSPECTIVE CHAMPION

SOUTHLAND FRIESIAN’S HIGH AVERAGE Fendalton Pansy Posch 3rd, a five-year-old pedigree Friesian at present being tested on C.O.R. by Royds and Williams in their “Awarima” herd at Five Rivers, has the remarkably high average test to date of 5.31 per cent., which easily exceeds the present record high average test for the breed of 4.95 per cent., held by Waipipi Duchess. It is not surprising to find Fendalton Pansy Posch 3rd testing so high, as she comes of high testing ancestors. She is sired by Netherland Pietertje of Bainfield, whose dam, Westmere Princess Pietertje, 9391 b. fat at four years, had an average test of 3.89 per cent., while her dam is Bainfield Pansy 3rd, holder of a C.O.R. of 609.341 b. fat as a junior two-year-old, who had an average test of 4.1 per cent Bainfield Pansy 3rd is also a maternal sister of Oakwood Topsy, 6931 b. fat—average test 4.18 per cent., the foundation cow of a very high testing strain. Fendalton Pansy Posch 3rd is also a splendid advertisement for line breeding, she being a double grand-daughter of Rosevale King Sylvia, while both her sire and dam are descended from Allah, a pure Dutch blood sire imported from New South Wales.

Fendalton Pansy Posch 3rd, during the 241 days- she has been on C.O.R. test, has produced 7632.31 b. milk and 405.421 b. fat to the end of August. If Royds and Williams’s cow experiences the normal rise in test toward the end of her lactation period, she should set a new record which will stand for many years to come.