HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAH SALE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144777, 6 September 1915, Page 7

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAH SALE.

In connection with the sale of Hol-stein-Friesians on account of Newton King and A. Harold Street on Woclncsday next, it is interesting to note the marvellous way. the “King Segis blood has come to the front m America. The latest number of the Holstein Register, published' in Brattlesboro, Vermont, says; “A bull that was practically unknown a year and a half ago, but now ranks with the greatest the world has over seen is 'King Hengerveld Aaggie Fayne.’” His rise in the last year has been the most phenomenal of any bull of the breed, his daughters broakine more world’s records in that length of time than those of any other bull, with the exception of “Pontiac Korrij dyke,” “King Hengerveld Aaggie was in service at Mr. Marnard Meyer B herd for about three years, when, having some trouble with his throat, he wafl sold to the butchers tor heef. The loss of this hull at such an age was probably the greatest loss the breed has ever suffered in the death of an individual animal. The death of a great record, COW is not nearly so serious a matter as the loss of a highly prepotent bull, for a cow, even the most prolific, can have only ten or fifteen offspring m her life, while a bull, under favourable circumstances, can have over 600. His daughter, “Finderne Holmgen Fayne, is ‘ the only oow outside Colantha 4tb Johanna” that has ever held the Buffer records in the four different divisions at the same time, and she is now the only oow in the world that holds five world’s records, four butter records and one milk record. She surpassed the best record ever made by a cow of another dairy breed, that of the Guernsey “Murno Cowan,” of 1908, 181 b. of fat, by 17.871 b. fat, and the best Jersey Junior three-year-old record, of 747.61 b. fat, held by “Lass 74th ” of Hood Farm, by 368.461 b. fat. Her record is remarkable not only for the amount of butter produced, but in several other particulars, her average per cent, of t at for the year was 4.53, her highest being 5.32 per cent. His four three-year-old daughters average 34.391 b. butter-fat in seven * days, which far exceeds the daughters of any other buff at a like acer and five of his three-year-old daughters average 33.231 b., which is also unequalled. The sire of King Hengerveld AAggie is King Fayne Segis,” who has 25 AJR.O. daughters. The sire of "King Fayne Sogis is the famous “King r Segis, who has 86 ARO daughters, and his dam was “Grace Fayne 2nd Homestead,’’a then record breeder with 30.501 b. fat for seven days. . , The above remarks from the register are very interesting, as it will be remembered Mr. Newton King’s bull “King Fayne Segis 2nd” is by the same sire as “King Hengerveld AAggie Fayne,” and his progeny should in the ordinary course make fresh records for New Zealand.

Sergeant G. F. Bertrand, son of Mr. G. Bertrand, Urenui, was wounded a second time on August 8. The raffle for prizes presented by the New Zealand Clothing Factory in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund wjw drawn by Messrs. J. Martin and P. Shaw, members of the executive of the Dunedin Queen Carnival, on the 26th and resulted as follows:—First prize, P. K. Low, North-East VaSey, Dunedin: 'second prize, M. Whitnefc, Donollie, West Coast; third prize, Mrs. T. Canard, Temuka; fourth prize, Mrs. Wallace, 132 Cuba St., Wellington. The attention of relations and friends of soldiers is drawn to the advertisement of Messrs. J. Avery, Ltd., in this issue. Permission having been given by the Government to send parcels of a minimum quantity of 101 b. of tobacco or 1000 cigarettes free of duty to soldiers, Messrs. J. Avery, Ltd-, are prepared to forward consignments at a greatly reduced rate. A saving of duty of 3s 6d per lb. on tobacco and 17s 6d per 1000 on cigarettes is effected. Friends can combine and have parcels made up which can be divided at the front.