Pedigree Stock.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 October 1915, Page 3

Pedigree Stock.

W'ERAROA EXPERIMENTA L FAIIM . Dairy farmers desirous of improving 1 uii ir herds will have the chance to acquire the stock necessary- to do so on Tuesday next, when the annual salo «>i .pedigreed animals at the Woraroa Expe>rlmental Kami will take place. The animals to be offered, Shorthorn and IJolstoins, arc looking in splendid condition at present, and in breeding and quality are equal to anythiug that can bi purchased elsewhere in tho Dominion. So well is this fact recognized, that for tlus coming sale enquiries already ha-vp been received trom Inrereargill in the Pouth to Auckland in the north, as well as from the/other districts. As an indication of the class of stock that will ho offered the following figures giving the Holstein cow's (Mary) record for the past ten years is interesting. This cow will be represented at the sale on Tuesday. In 1900-fi she gave 12.1fi7U)P of milk. o<l Iml to 450.11hs ol butter-fat fT9O6-7, 10.8111bs milk; butter-fat 1907-8, 13,1681bs milk. 500.31bs buttexfat; 1908-0, 13,57211>s mint, 515.71bs but-tor-fat; 1909-10, not milking; 1910-11. 11,192!bs milk, 448-llbs butter-fat; in] 1-12. 12,81 libs milk, .|7f>.2lta buttorFat; IDI2-K5. n,2lf)l.bs millc, 135.11b-; butter-fat; 1913-14, 13,5971bs milk, 33s.ulbs butter-fat; 191-1-15, 10,2(J(jlbs milk, llU.tilbs butter-fat. Another cow, one oi whoso soils has sired several ol the animals ior sale, is Daphne 11, one 01 the lllawarra Shorthorns. At present she is giving within a lew pounds oi seven gallons 01 milk per day, giving a -1.(3 test. And looking bacK over title records one seea tnat tliia '» a regular tiling. All the Shorthorns ior .vale nave been passcu oy the Siiortiiorn Breeders' Association ana entered ii> tlie second volume of the Stud Book. The arrangements lor the comfort ox visitors 10 tho larm are ocing completed in eveij uay ; a large marquee will ue erected and the catering lias been placed in the hands oi Air A. u U iiituiiis. >friftifiiiiini aiftßMMiaaMi