A SPLENDID OFFERING.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17994, 12 April 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

A SPLENDID OFFERING.

PEDIGREE JERSEYS. THE ALFALFA STUD. The catalogue of seventy in-call fieifers and forty bulls, to constitute the 1930 offering of the Alfalfa pedigree Jersey herd of Mr F. J. Saxby, of Ohaupo Road, Hamilton, on April 29, should provide breeders throughout the Dominion with the opportunity oi securing proven lines of outstanding quality and butter-fat backing to augment the productiveness of their herds. This annual fixture has grown in importance and is to-day one of the most 'outstanding sales of its kind in the province, drawing as it does buyers from all over the Dominion. The quality of the animals to be offered this year, in ‘the opinion of the vendor, will surpass the high standard ■of previous years. All two-year-old heifers on the farm will be catalogued, and as no private sales are made during the year all buyers will have an equaKopportunity on sale day. The fact that the heifers put up for audion are daughters of Waiplko Masterpiece, champion of champion butterfat bulls, is a big factor in the popularity of this important fixture. Daughters of this great sire hold la records, averaging GUa.7slb fat. The twenty records of his daughters average SG3.GUIb fat, and are all yearling and two-year-old records, with the exception of one three-year-old and one five-year-old. They have won two gold and two bronze medals, besides holding five New Zealand records for age. They all hold a world’s record average on twice-daily milking. Vive La France's Last Son (imp.) was secured by Mr Saxby last year, ■and as he is considered to be the greatest butter-fat backed bull imported to New Zealand ho is a-- great acquisition to the Alfalfa Stud, lie Is a direct son of the world’s record longdistance cow, Vive La France, whose yearly records includq one of 1039.291 b fat and another of 1031.G41b fat, while Grand Champion cow at the Pacific International Exposition. His sire is a full brother to the world’s record four-year-old Darling’s Jollie Lassie, 1141.28 lb fat. His two .nearest dams and his sire’s full sister hold four records, averaging 1048.861'b fat. They are the culmination-of years of breeding from record-breakers. All the direct daughters of Masterpiece, and some of the others are in calf to- this valuable bull. A record offering of bulls in numbers and quality rail'be another feature of this popular fixture. Mostly direct sons of Waipiko Masterpiece C. 8.8., they are from high-testing and heavy-producing dams.