HOLSTEIN CATTLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 8

HOLSTEIN CATTLE.

Mr Newton King's second annual t, !o of pedigree Holstein cattle, which s to be held at his Willowvale Stud farm at Bell. Block on iFriday next, mould be of special interest to Holtrin breeders. and dairy farmers dc■irous of improving their dairy herds Hb.e Government official tests, which lave already been published, t afford t:iking proof of tlie superiority of M rKing's strain as producers of mtterfat, as well as quantity of milk, iiuly Rozine, which headed the list vith over oOOlbs. of butter-fat and !-l,,'M2lhs. of milk to tho end of June, 'r.d is still milking, is uan, example of //hat Holsteins are capable of, and .nost of the other cows under test to already well over the 4001 b. nark and some of them still milking, .no of the latter, Nazli's Pet, being ucluded in Friday's salo catalogue. 'Lis latter cow is full sister to the mils Nazli de Kol and Pauline's Pieertjo, sold by Mr King to Messrs Atkinson (of Tai .Tapu) and Donald. <f Wcstmere, Wanganui, respectively, rhich have both sired such splendid 'mttor-fat producing stock. The suc--e«s achieved by the latter breeders is i striking illustration of the potent influence of a bull, and exemplifies the truth of the well-known adage that the bull is half tho herd.