KAPONGA BULL FAIR.
HIGH-CLASS PEDIGREE CATTLE. The tenth annual buff fair of the Kaponga Jersey Club will be held at Newton King, Ltd.’s, yards,. Kaponga, on Monday, October 7. The offering will comprise 71 bulls. This is 21 more than last year and a record entry. There,, are 21 two-year-olds, 45 yearlings and -four four and five-year-old bulls, the catalogue being made up of stock from the leading breeders of the district. The sale provides ,a good opportunity for dairymen to obtain both a prepotent and serviceable sire for immediate service, the animals being well-grown, in good condition and displaying both type and constitution. Catalogues with’ extended pedigrees are now obtainable from the auctioneers, Newton King, Ltd., and these show that the lots are fashionably' bred as both sires and dams excel in butter-fat.performances, the first dams behind: these bulls having C.O.R. records up to 7211 b. butter-fat. The majority of the'bulls catalogued descend from the Dominion’s most noted sires: K.C.B. (imp.),Eminent’s r'o:i (imp.), Majesty’s Fox. .(imp.), Campanile’s Sultan (imp.), Lord ■Twylish (imp.), Roberts (imp.), Fancy’s. Lord Twylish, Meadowvale Conqueror, Admiral of Puketapu, Belvedere Bilberry’s ;Last, Molina’s General (imp.), Petune’s Noble (imp.), Soumise Majesty (imp-)., Brighton Twylish (imp.), Xenia’s Oxford. Lad (imp.), The General, Peggy’s Campanile, Mermaid’s Sultan, Silver Conqueror, and from the champion butter-fat bulls Grannie s Knight, Bilberry’s Twylish, Holly Bank Squire, Belvedere Sun Prince, Soumise Tom, Viola’s Golden Laddie (imp.), and Sunflower’s Perseus, etc, , . In addition to the .bulls there will be offered one yearling heifer, Zola’s Lady, out of the gold medallist, Zola of Rosy Creek, C.O.R. 741.21 b. of- fat as a three-year-old heifer. Zola’s Lady is’ classically bred and her pedigree is full of butter-fat performances, tracing four times to the famous K.C.B. (imp.), and once to the champion butter-fat bulls Bilberry s Twylish and Belvedere Sun Prince. The sale will commence at 11 a.m. and will proceed without adjournment for lunch, which will be obtainable at the yards. A loading bank has been provided for the convenience of clients wishing to convey bulls by motor lofty. =••0.1 lie J’ .!
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 11
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