SALE OF PEDIGREE DAIRY CATTLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2299, 5 November 1914, Page 8

SALE OF PEDIGREE DAIRY CATTLE

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, I/td., will offer at the Showground'.on, Friday pedi- ] eree dairy stock on account of the Hon. Beaton Khodes ajid- Dr. Truby KiSK, of Seaeliff. .Dairy ' faimers uttendine the show will have an opportunity of securing Bpecimens of the red polled breed from tho herd of the Hon. Hcaton Khodes. whoso'Btud herd is descended from imported stock bred by Messrs. J. Coleman, Garrett Taylor, and Lord Kothschild, all noted breeders of the Eastern Counties. Mr. Rhodoe has lately imported a,.young bull from the herd established by the Government of Victoria, The red poll is now "popular ae "the farmers' cow" vn larsc areas of the United States, Canada, .and the Argentine, and it is noteworthy thit at tho Norwich Fat Show in 1911 and. 1912 Mr. Holt Wilson swept the boards, whitet at thcl9l2 Dairy •Show a red polled cow from Lord /Radnor's herd* headed the inspection awards. On account of Dr. Truby Kins, of Seaeliff, Otaco, the firm aro offering six pediirreo Jersey ■ cattle, includine the two-year bull, "Comedy King," by "Silver King" «ut of Mr. Prod Hellyer's irreat cow, "Queen of tho Bouth." "Silver King" was imported by Hγ. J. Stuckey, of. Maeterton, and has proved himself to be ono of the finest bulls ever landed in the Dominion. ' '■ Also on account of the same breeder are beins offered four pedigree Holstein cattle, including the four-year bull, "Weraroa," by "Sir de Kol Inka Pieterje," imported out of "Manola." Tile, milk return for, "Jlanola" for ono season, Government test, was as follows: 1 ,20,786!!). of milk, valued nt £33 Bs. Bd. The whole of the abovo stock with the exception of. the Holstetn bull "U'eraroa" (bred ot the State ; farm, Levin) have been bred on Dr. Tfuby King's farm at Tahakopa. and as this is in the latitude of Inveroarglll their Tieour and hardiness is assured. . ■ '. '