Australian Butter-Fat Records

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1915, Page 3

Australian Butter-Fat Records

_ A XUsL a UuiiU) , euu iieiu the leeoiu ior \ n:iuna lor uuucr-iai nß.uueuon; 'uieu pnue ui place wa.3 ganiou »y an • -Vvi*a.jrc Ua.vo uie "*iiiairala*iiiu";, ami now a lieu roll iiu*> ueaten au previous records. I'his is the cow -uuria, by ltounioud, Uaia liouiah. hx iiuuuy, niio completed her mue months oinuai test uu April au, and yielded lbs, milK, with au average test j ol ij./-l, uiiieii ib /Uu lli buuer-iat, uouri,- equivalent to BU-1 lb. ol commercial t buuur. tier yield ol milk uu the lass. , day oi leal was '&1 lb., and as sue has \ uol proved m call, she is still Ueiuji 6 iiulJied, nidi u view lo seeing what c her iiuures will be lor 12 uroutlia. lue uoi'ld's record lor tt mouths lor the L

Ked .Poll breed was iJ.IOU lb. nnlk, which yielded (MJ.U lb. butter-lut, accorciiuy to receut Amerieau iiyuaxte. Maria, therefore, slmulu easily hea'J the world's list lor both milk uiid butter. iiighost record for milk -s 13,0.3011., produced by Jeau du Luth Pear, the daughter oi the holder of the old butter-fat record; but which only gave 540.51b, butter-fat. .Uuria has been a fairly good performer ever since she was first testeu iu 1910-11, u-hen her uguros were 283 days in iniik[ olSlb. milk, 240.71b. butter-fat. Last year in the Government standard tests she produced in 273 days 72571b milk,' u-ith a 5.0 t«Bt, yieldiug 304 lb, but-ter-fat. Her monetary returns for file period just passed would Iα £36. even if we take the price of butter-fat at Is, which is the average in normal yoare. There is a wide difference betwocn this amount and the return tio«n the average milch cow fin Victoria. It must be remembered, too. that tho Hod Polls carry a considerable amount of flesh, and are valuable for butchering.'