STUD STOCK FOR OVERSEAS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19448, 6 November 1925, Page 9

STUD STOCK FOR OVERSEAS

NEW MAKKET FOE ROMNEYS SALES OF ABERDEEN ANGUS AND JERSEY CATTLE In addition th the numerous purchases of Aberdeen Angus cat He made at the Ben Lomond dispersal sale for export to Australia, Atcssrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report that they have shipped tu Victoria two very fine specimens of this breed from Mr W. A. McFarlane's Waiterenui stud, Hawke’s Bay. The two-year-old bull, Idric of Waiterenui, was purchased at the Aberdeen Angus breeders’ sialo at Dannevirkc, for the top price of 160 guineas, a keen contest for his possession ensuing between Messrs Burling Bros., Masterton, and Messrs Wright, ►Stephenson and Co., Ltdi, who were acting for the Victorian breeder, Mr R. C. Buchanan, “ Ormidale, ’ ’ Tallangatta. This bull is from the same family as the great sire Roderick Dhu, one of whose get was last year’s Royal champion bull, and his dam is by Mayflower’s Justice, a son of the famous old champion, Flower. From Air AlcFarlane’s stud there was also forwarded to Air Buchana, a fine type of two-year-old heifer in Isla of Waiterenui, a daughter of the noted imported sire, Alulben Elbow, a son of which bull was champion at Hastings last year, while the d'am was by an older imported champion Quality of Alaisemore. Air Buchanan has, therefore, secured two animals of particularly good breeding and of a standard that should worthily uphold the reputation of the Dominion overseas. New Zealand breeders of Aberdeen Angus cattle will be interested in the results at the coming Sydney Royal Show, where quite a number of New’ Zealand bred cattle will compete.

Afessrs W. H. Booth and Sons, “Aliddlc Run.” Carterton, the wellknown Jersey breders, have also sold to Air Buchanan one of their notable Monopoly bred Jersey bulls, Amarion of Puketapu. This is the second bull from this herd that has been selected for export to Australia within the past 12 months, and this goes to show that Messrs Booth and Sons’ Monopoly strain is becoming as popular across the water as it is in New Zealand. During the last twenty years, champions have continued to come from the Aliddlo Run stud with great frequency, and Mr Buchanan’s purchase combines in this pedigree much of the best blood in the herd, for his sire, Merry Alay of Puketapu, is by a son of the great champion junior two-year-old heifer Alere, which produced 663.64 lb. of butterfat and hold the record for the world for four years. Noted show-ring winners behind Amarion of Puketapu include also Rewa Maize (Taranaki and Wairarapa champion), Rewa Alaycan (Canterbury champion;. Owler of Puketapu (champion sire), Victoria sth (Canterbury champion), Primrose V. (Wairarapa and Alanawatu champion). His dam, Rewa Amarion, is one of the best vessclled cows in Middle Run herd.

At the Wairarapn Show last week, it was made apparent that the interest created in Canada and the United States in the New Zealand Romney by the visit last year of the official representative of the Romney Marsh Association is now bearing fruit. Some months ago an initial shipment of Romneys was made from Mr S. J. Coulter’s Merrawee flock to California, and at the Wairarapa Show a number lof the prize winning Romneys were I purchased for export to Canada by I Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., | Ltd. The rams selected were exhibited at the show by Messrs Quinton ! Donald, “Alloa,” Featherston, and A. • E. Anderson, Clarevilla, and were prize. | winners in each case. Mr Donald has ■ now sold rams from his flock for exI port to Canada, Argentina and Uni- | guay, and Mr Anderson has sold quite ' a number of his Lincolns for export to South America.