MILK-RECORD HOLSTEINS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 10

MILK-RECORD HOLSTEINS.

THE STATE'S WOODCREST ' . , : PUKCHASES. In the batch of Holsteiris recently imported from America and now in quarantine, the State has secured.for the Wera,roa Experimental Farm several animals of the closest relation to some of the best foundation blood- of American Holstcins. Aggie Tehee Dc Kol, the-granddam of one of the imported heifers, has a semi-official record of 724.7711). of fat in the year.the secoud largest record held at the time. She sold in public auction at .£'535. The sire of the imported heifer—Homestead Girl de Kol Sarcastic Lad, also the sire of two of the other imported heifers—has just on oiie . hundred daughters in ' the Advanced Register, and has perhaps mor« daughters which have qualified'in a semiofficial test than any other bull.- The three imported heifers referred.to, bj. reason of having Homestead;Girl'de Kol Sarcastic Lad as their sire, arc half-sisters to Woodstead Rifton Lassie, ttlio at twenty-live months old. gave 728X511.. of fat in tho twelve months; and-thus holds . the world's record for her- class. They are also-half-sisters to Woodcrest Homestead Princess, who holds, a record of 751:721b. of fat for the year. A numbs? of-other half-sisters run-over 6001b. of fat at immature ages. Ina Woodcrest de.Kol, granddam of two of the-''other 1 imported heifer's, has. a record of. GM.iillb. of fat. This cow has no fewer than seven advanced register daughters. One,of the heifers has on her aire's side Grace "Payne 2nd Homestead 'as a granddam, a cow -which held the world's record with 23.441b. of butter-fat in a week. She is considered one of the .most remarkable cows'of the breed. .

, Woodcrest Lady Maud is a half-sister of three of the imported heifers, being by 'the same bull. As a three-year-old she gave 50G.731b. of butter-fat. Pictje 22nd's Woodcrest Lad, to whom three of .the imported heifers are bred, is a sen of -Pietje 22nd, a cow generally recngniscd as the.best female Holstein int-pori'-d into America, bavins made a sixmonths, official record (an independent officer superintending each milking) nf over 4531b. of bntter-fat. Pictje 22nd's Woodcrest Lad is the sire of the world's' -record junior four-year-olds, who gave 24.481b. of fat in a week.