THE WERAROA HOLSTEINS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1912, Page 4

THE WERAROA HOLSTEINS.

At the Palmerston Show on the Ist* November the annual draft of yearling bulls from the Weraroa Experimental farm of the Department were sold by auction. The sale attracted widespread interest. The six bull calves realized an average of 175 guineas, the individual prices being : Dominion de Kol Domino, 290 gs. (record of dam—Domino 111—21,784 lb, milk, 769,824 lb, butter-fat'); Dominion Baron Frederick, 187 gs. (record of dam—Manola—2o,4o2lb milk 632. 462 lb butter»fat); Dominion Oozak, 151 gs (record of dam—Lenore---10,597 lbmilk, 390*298 lb butter-fat); Dominion Eoyalist, 15) gs (record of dam—Lulu—ls,ll4 lb milk, 453-42 lb. bcttter»fat ); Dominion Admiral, 136 gs, (record of dam—Freda ~7,912, lb. milk, 279.475 lb butter-fat) ; and Dominion Marco, Iss gs (record of dam —Barhe— 12,054 lb milk, 354.8821b butter»fat). All these calves were by the old bull, Sir de Kol Inka Pietertje, imported by Mr Newton King, of New Plymouth, and purchased by the Department when thft Weraroa bull, the old sire was passed under the hammer and sold at 60 gs. A three year-old Longb9ach bull realized 90 gs. and an imported bull, calved last March, went at 80 gs. Three heifers realized respectively 111 gs. s 101 gs, and 92 gs., and a cow 90 gs. Two non-re-gisteied milking Shorthorn yearling bulls were sold at 35 gs., and a twenty-months old Jersey bull, of New South Wales breeding, at 27 gs. The sixteen head brought a total value cf £1,858, an average of £116 2s 6d.