THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESEIANS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10427, 19 September 1911, Page 5

THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESEIANS

A JIECENT IMPORTATION.

Mr W. I. Lovelock, <rf Palmerston "North, writes to Mr Ooleman ■ Phillips fnxm Rarotonga as follows: "We arrived here from San "Francisco, en route for, New Zealand, on ■the 5.s . ,/Lorangi. I have seventeen hieiautcful pedigree Holstedn-Friesian cattle on board-, and they are doing splendidfly so far, and if our passage continues good, I expect tx> land theim in good, condition. This consignment will be the beslt bred Hoisteins ever imported to ! our fair country, and I am proud to be the to introduce them. I gave 1000 dollars for a' 27-montk-oJd heifer for myself, amd have some other (handsomely bred animals on /hoard. In fact they are a grand lot, and I would like you to see 'them. I have others-,to follow later. I : 'lbJqpe and .teuafc: ; ' tha* the remainder' <jf: i&ae rjpaasajge L *OL. he gccd-: Bjy reach; hoimie I will have »tmvdlied 23,000 miles for the "Black land Ttflbite."' It took me 16 days fa> travel 3500 miles with the cattle right across the Continent from MonitieiUo (Mass.) to San Francisco. I wfeus knocked Uip and ill for several flays alter' I reached San Francisco. It is a'terrible journey for both man and beast. My best heifer gave birth) to a beautifiul heifer oalf on jfihe train; both; are well."