MILK RECORD AYRSHIRES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1912, Page 3

MILK RECORD AYRSHIRES

MARKET VaLUE OF TESTED STOCK.

Striking demonstration of the money-records to the breeder of purebred dairy stock is the transformation taking place in the sale values of tested Ayrshire stock in the home of the breed. New Zealand breeders ■who have not yet been convinced of the goldmine in performance pedigraes by the sales at auction of the yearling Holstein bulls from the "Weraroa herd of the Department may be stimulated to action by learning the result of a recent Ayshire Sale in Scotland. It was the Auchenbainzie dispersion sale. The 114 cattle made an averago of £22 16s 3d., the top figure being 100 guineas, given by the Mr. T. Clement, the Scottish cheese-merchant, who recently presented a milk record bull to the Dalefield Co-operative Dairy Company,, and who is devoloping in Scotland a fine herd of deep-milking Ayshires. The thirty-five cows in the above herd averaged L 33 18s; the fifteen two-year-old hflifers £25 9s • and the eighteen-months heifers £24 17s, At another late sale in Scotlanb, that of Lochfengus, an average of_£2l 2s 2d, for 177 animals was obtained, the highest figure being 200 guineas, These are very different values to those which have ruled for the breed in the past. Performance and constitution are at last attaining their true market value, and fancy points are at a discount.