GLADYS II.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VII, Issue 1, 15 July 1913, Page 60

GLADYS II.

The three-year-old Holstein heifer Gladys 11, of the herd of Mr. G. Aitchison, of Kaitangata, which Mr. W. M. Singleton announced in the May Journal as having distinguished herself by having produced her requirement to qualify for a semi-official test in the shortest period of any cow of any class, has now completed her milkingperiod. Her record for 304 days’ milking is 15,788-25 lb. of milk, testing 3'BB per cent, and giving 614 lb. of butter-fat. Her daily

average was 51-93 lb. of milk and 2-01 lb. of butter-fat. Unfortunately, the heifer could not be milked for the full period of 365 days which she was entitled to under the conditions governing semi-official testing. She will be practically five months earlier than she might have been in this next freshening. Had she not been served so early in her testing-period it is not improbable that she would have established a world's record for her class.

Domino V. This grand-daughter of Domino 111, the champion cow of the Holstein Herd of the Weraroa Experimental Farm, is an excellent type of a dairy cow. As a heifer (in the 1910-11 season) she gave 11,249 lb- of milk and 404-9 lb. of butter-fat; in the 191112 season : 14,582! lb. of milk and 481-223 lb. of butter-fat, and for 167 days of the 1912-13 season (up to 30th June) 8,786 lb. of milk and 276-37 lb. of butter-fat. At the end of June she was still giving 37 lb. of milk a day. Domino Vis by Kruger II out of Domino IV (a daughter of Domino 111 by Kruger). Her picture forms the frontispiece of this issue.