A GOOD FRIESIN

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1578, 25 November 1924, Page 5

A GOOD FRIESIN

832.591 b. OF BUTTERFAT IN 365 DAYS. The secretary of the New Zealand Friesian Association reports that another cow of the Friesian breed has produced over 8001 b. of butterfat in one year. This is Messrs C. W. Baldwin and Son’s Lady Zozo Alcartra Van Racelands, bred by Messrs Clifford Brothers, of Lepperton, Taranaki.

The cow is bred from producers and her record demonstrates the value of good proven ancestry. She is sired by King Alcartra Rozine Fayne (half-brother to the Dominion champion milk and butterfat cow, Alcartra Clothi’lde Pietje, who gave 31,312.5 lbs of milk and 1145 lbs of butter-fat) and is out of Zozo 11. of Ashlyn, who has just completed a record of 13,322.41 b. of milk and 555.441 b. of butterfat, and is again ,on test and has given 97.511 b. butterfat in her first complete month. On both sides of her pedigree, Lady Zozo Alcartra Van Racelands traces back to one of the greatest foundation sires ever brought into the Dominion, viz., Sir De Kol Inka Pietertje. Appended are her monthly returns:—

To illustrate the worth of this record the cash value of the production ,of milk is shown hereunder assessed under the Wellington City milk scheme, taking butterfat at Is 6d per lb:— 832.591 b. butterfat at Is 6d £62 8 10 Adding 5d per gallon added value at 10.31 b. per gallon 46 16 10 £lO9 5 8 Assessing the value of milk at 2s per gallon, the value of milk produced by this cow is £224 17s.

Milk ButterDays lbs fat lbs September, 1923 1 55.9 1.88 October .. .. 31 2369.7 79.85 November .. .. 30 2384.8 84.66 December .. .. 31 2286.1 83.21 January, 1924 31 2293.4 73.84 February .... 29 2096.9 66.68 March . . .... 31 2067.7 73.40 April .... 30 1897.2 69.62 May .. .. .. .. 31 1928.8 72.52 June . . . . .. .. 30 1604.7 62.74 July .. .. .. 31 1522.6 63.34 August .. .. .. 31 1478.8 53.97 September .... 28 1172.0 46.88 Totals . . .. 365 23158.6 832.59