EXCELLENT STUD RECORD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 15

EXCELLENT STUD RECORD

SIX YEARS OF TESTING GLEN OAK JERSEY I-TERD Excellent figures under Government certificate of record and official herd test systems have .been secured during the past six years by the well-known Glen Oak Jersey Stud,, owned by Messrs. W. J. Olley and Sens, Ormond. Since 1932, the Glen Oak Jersey Stud has gained 15 first and one second class C.O.R. certificates. The records range from 584.151 b. fat as junior two-year-olds and 770.601 b. fat in 365 days at maturity. One cow, Darkie’s Princess, h.c., won a gold medal for production, having produced 770.001 b. fat and 12,3411 b. milk in 365 days at six years. This cow also had two further firstclass C.O.R. certificates, 468.361 b. fat m 305 days as a senior two-year-old, and 623.641 b. fat at four years in 365 days, as well as two Government official herd test records, 479.321 b. fat in 263 days at five years and 54b.031b. fat in 281 days at seven years.

Recently the heifer Glen Oak Dot’s Perfection won the production cup awarded by the Poverty Bay Jersey Club for 1938, having produced 584.15 lb. fat in 305 days as a junior two-year-old. 305.751 b. fat over the minimum to Qualify. Two other membeis of the stud secured second and third places.. The cow, Darkie’s Princess, li.c., is a daughter of Marshlands, Superior, sire of six C.O.R. daughters in this stud, these averaging 536.051 b. fat in 355 days at four years 87 days, and six h.c. daughters. Had other Jersey breeders in Poverty Bay tested daughters of Marshlands Superior, this sire would have been high up in the ranks as a champion butterfat bull. Glen Oak Dot’s Perfection is a daughter of Bridge View Noble Rupert, which already has three C.O.R. daughters, with two further daughters unfinished producing 348.871 b. and 313.431 b. fat in 271 and 263 days, respectively, as junior two-year-olds. During the coming season, it is hoped that this bull will become a champion butterfat bull. The Government officials records are as follows from 1932 to 1939: — 1932, nine junior two-year-olds, daughters of Marshlands Superior, had an average production of 3301 b. fat in 302 days; 1934, 13 were Hosted, comprising of seven two-year-olds, three three-year-olds and three four-year-olds, the average being 356.841 b. fat in 296 days; 1935, 15 tested, comprising eight junior two-year-olds, five three-year-olds and .two live-year-olds, the average being 345.081 b. fat in 271 days; 1936, 11 tested, comprising four two-year-olds, four three-year-olds, one l'our-year-old and two five-year-olds, the average production being 351.761 b. fat in 233 days; 1937, 17 tested, comprising nine two-year-olds, four three-year-olds and four matured cows, the average production being 327.831 b. fat in 236 days; 1938-39, drought season, 16 tested, comprising eight two-year-olds, four three-year-olds and four matured cows, the average .production being 249.321 b. fat in 218 days, up till March, 1939, when the Government O.H.T. cows were withdrawn from test owing to severe conditions. *