PEDIGREE HOLSTEINS IMPORTED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 881, 29 July 1910, Page 8

PEDIGREE HOLSTEINS IMPORTED.

FOR MB. NEWTON KING'S STUD. Mr. William -James, manager of Newton King's Stud Farm, New Plymouth, who left here last April for America to. pur-: chase purebred Holstein cattle, returned by the Mokoia yesterday, bringing three fculls and two heifers, in first-class condition. , . . — ■ The bull that is selected to be the head of'the Taranaki herd was sired by a son ■'of the great King Segis, out of the worldchampion cow &race Fayne 2nd Homestead, with a butter record of 30.551b. in , eeven days. ' The 'other bulls are by first- : olass sires oat of dams of butter records 21 to 271b. in seven days, v Mr. James says that well-bred Holsteins with good records are very dear in America, and that, calves of the best breeds are sometimes sold at 1000, dollars each. ■. . ■ . He also says he has visited.the best herde in New York State, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts, besides other places, and lie considers he has seen, some of the finest dairy cattle in the world. The cattle were shipped on the Marijosa.from San Francisco to Tahiti, and at Tahiti transhipped to the Mokoia. They, were purchased in New York and Wisconsin States, and mere fourteen days on the trucks crossing the continent.