Friesian Notes From Overseas

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 23

Friesian Notes From Overseas

A World's Record.—Pietje Butter Girl of Berks, a senior two-ycsar-old, recently broke the world’s senior two-year-old record for fat production in the 10 months’ division. Her yield was 20,747.61 b milk, 761.971 b fat in 305 days. Another Canadian 1 0001 b Cow.— Springbank Snow Countess, a mature purebred Friesian, has just completed a semi-official record of 25,7631 b milk and 1,1251 b fat, her average percentage of fat thus being 4.37. Her sire •was Pioneer Snow Korndyke and her dam Lettice Countess X)e Kol. It is interesting to note that Pioneer Snow Korndyke and Pioneer Snow Ormsby (the bull imported last year by the New Zealand Government Farm, Weraroa) are both sons of Calamity Snow Mechthilde, 9071 b fat, who is a full sister to Calamity Snow Mechthilde 2nd, 8871 b fat —“the cow with the perfect udder.” A Worth While Herd.—The milking herd of 72 registered Holstein-Fries-ians at the Dayton State Hospital, Ohio, produced a to tal of 753,9731 b milk during 1926 an average of 10,47.21 b milk a cow. Tuberculin Testing.—The tuberculin testing of cattle is going forward at a rapid rate throughout the United States of America. In all, 302 counties in 26 States have been declared free of the disease. More than

17,400,000 cattle are now under eradication of tuberculosis, and nearly 5,000,000 more were on the waiting list throughout the United States on April 1, 1927. Society to Build up Herds.—The National Herd Honour Roll, created by the National Dairy Association, U.S.A., to stimulate interest in increased milk and butter-fat production, and the keeping of better herds is greater by nearly a thousand herds than ever before. The honour roll now includes more than 6,000 herds producing over 3001 b fat per cow per annum. Wisconsin leads with 1,400 herds, followed by Michigan with 1,078, Minnesota 659, Ohio 258 and Pennsylvania 426.