HOLSTEIN IMPORTATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 10

HOLSTEIN IMPORTATIONS.

.MORE FROM AMERICA. :,.',. .•■■. Mr.. W., James, who v has charge,of ■Mr/ Newton King's well-known Holetein'herd at 801 l Block; Taranaki, left, yesterday by the Mokoia for the-United ;-6tates"tq secure some -new blood from the leading American .-Holstein herds. .Speaking to a Dominion representative yesterday Mr. James! said Mr." King had now; got cows in. his. herd that' producer. 221bs. of biittor a, week. "I am geing;".,-;said Mr. James, "to see -if I can't get hold of a bull'or two that will turn out cows giving 281bs. If wecaii' get thdso sort'oi cows in' New Zealand-it will do something for the butter 'export.' Our best. cow' averaged last season, wheiisho. was 3i years old, eolbs.jo'f milk a week on a 4.5 per cent, .test Humid-season! Later on hor test dropped- to .i , per cent."-. Mr. James .expects, to purchase some seven or eight- bulls, somo of 'them being for' Mr. King, snd some for ■'other breeders ■in Taranaki. He will-;visit Wisconsin, , . ihe chief home of the Holstein in Western America, and 'will, go on to the New England Sta.tcs. , where; the .breed has been popular for niany years, and where ■the oldest-established American lerds are to be found. •' : .

Speaking, of King's herd Mr. James~s'aid it nW consisted of 40 pure-breds.;.i.'flii_s-season it had won 51 first pnzes and. eight championships, at .the shows. Last year the winnings were 50 firsts'and nine, championships. : ;■ .