SHIPMENTS OF AYRESHIRE BULLS.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 189, 18 February 1913, Page 4

SHIPMENTS OF AYRESHIRE BULLS.

THE CLEMENT PRESENTATIONS. i Information to hand from the Old County covers particulars of the breeding of the five yearling Ayreshire bulls which have been presented to the suppliers of various North Island dairy companies by Mr T. Clement, ol Netherton, Newton-Mearns, near Glasgow. The names and pedigrees of the animals are : (i) Netherton Macvicar (9536), by Netherton Midland; dam, Netherton Queen Victoria, whose record last year was 1058 gallons of 4.28 per cent butter fat, while thi&yearher record will be over 1000 gallons of 4.3 per cent. The record of this cow’s dam at two years and a half old was 874 gallons of 4.2 per cent butter fat. !

(2) Netherton MacNeilage (9534), sire Netherton Midland ; dam, Glassock Nellie 11, which gave 955 gallons of 3.54 per cent butter fat. Old Nellie, her dam, gained the first prize at the Fenwick Show with a record of 1200 gallons of 3.92 per cent butter fat. She is still fresh and doing well, and is regarded as one of the best cows in the Netherton herd, if not in Scotland. (3) Netherton Good Rule (953 2 )> sire, Auchenbrain Good Gift; dam, Red Rose, half-sister of King Arthur. As a three-year-old she gave 903 gallons of 3.38 per cent butter fat. She is a cow with a great frame and the best of teats. The record of her dam was 920 gallons of 3-5' P er cent butter fat in 39 weeks. (4) Netherton Mactaggart(9s3s) sire Netherton Midland; dam, Wyllieland Tiha IV. which gave 904 gallons of 3.6 per cent butterfat in her first lactation. Unfortunately since then she has lost a quarter, but last year, notwithstanding this disadvantage, she gave the splendid yield of 979 gallons. (5) Netherton King Jerry (9533). -sire- King Arthur; dam, Cul■craigie Janette, a great milker. In 1910 she gave 992 gallons of 3.62 per cent butter fat, an,d in 1911 her yield was 1262 gallons, while this year,in 40 weeks she has given 1115 gallons, and at the time the mail left she was still yielding 241 b per day. According to the Live 'Stock Journal (London), dated December 27, Mr Miller-Hallett has recently sold for shipment to New Zealand, from his wellknown Jersey herd, a very choice bull calf by Golden Chance’s Noble, first prize at the London Dairy Show this year, out of Golden Plaisanterie, winner of a large number of prizes. A wellbred two-year-old heifer, whose grand-dam took second prize over Jersey two years running accompanies him.