HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1915, Page 8

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS.

TO-MORROW'S SALE. In connection with the sale of Hol-stein-Friesians on account of Newton King and A. Harold Street to-morrow, it is interesting to note the marvellous way the "King Segis" blood has come to the front in America. The latest number of the Holstein Register, published in Battlesboro, Vermont, says: "A bull that was practically unknown a year and a half ago, but now ranks with the greatest the world has ever seen is 'King Hengerveld Aaggie Fayne." His rise in the last year has been the most phenomenal of any bull of the breed, his daughters breaking more world's records in that length of time than those of any other bull, with the exception of "Pontiac Korndyke." "King Hengerveld Aaggie" was in service at Mr. Marnard Meyer's herd for about three years, when, having some trouble with his throat, he was sold to the butchers for beef. The loss of this bull at such an age was probably the greatest loss the breed has ever suffered in the death of an individual animal. The death of a great record cow is not nearly so serious a matter as the loss of a highly prepotent bull, for a cow, even the most prolific, can have only ten or fifteen] offspring in her life, while a bftll, under favorable circumstances, can have over 500. His daughter, "Finderne Holingen Fayne," is the only cow outside "Colantha 4th Johanna" that has ever held the Buller records in the four different divisions at the same time, and she is now the only cow in the world that holds five world's records, four butter records, and one milk record. She surpassed the best record ever made by a cow of another dairy breed, thiat of the Guernsey "Murne Cowan," of 1908, 181b of fat, by 17.871b fat, and the best Jersey Junior three-year- old record, of 747.61b fat, held by "Lass 74t.h," of Hood Farm, by 368.451b. Her record is remarkable, not only for the amount of butter produced, but in several other particulars, her average per cent, of fat for the year was 4,53, her highest being 5.32 per cent. His four three-year-old daughters averaged 34,391b butterfat in seven days, which far exceeds the daughters of any other bull at a like age, and five of his three-year-old daughters averaged 33.231b, which is also unequalled. The sire of "King Hengerveld Aaggie" is "King Fayne Segis," who has 25 A.R.O. daughters. The sire of "King Fayne Segis" is the famous "King Segis," who has 85 A.R.O. daughters, and his dam was "Grace Fayne 2nd Homestead," a then record breeder with 35.551b fat for seven days. The above remarks from a register are very interesting, as it will be remembered Mr. Newton King's bull "King Fayne Segis 2nd" is by the same sire as 'King Hengerveld Aaggie Fayne," and his progeny should in the ordinary course make fresh records for New Zealand.