WAIRARAPA BULL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 3

WAIRARAPA BULL

PURCHASED FOR WAIMAHAKA STUD Messrs Alex Holms and Sons’ famous Waimahaka Hereford Stud, the oldest in the South Island, and one of the oldest in the Dominion, is developing both types of the breed, the horned and the polled. In connection with the latter, importations of both male and female stock have been made both from the United States and Canada. This year it has been found necessary to purchase another young polled sire, as the first crop of polled heifers bred in the stud are now ready for mating. After a careful inspection of various studs, Mr Alex Holms recently made a selection of a sire, the bull chosen being a yearling bred in Miss Bessie Donald’s Papatahi Stud in the Wairarapa. This bull, Papatahi Cutler 25th, who was purchased through the agency of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co Ltd, is a member of this season’s show team, and delivery is not to be taken until after the season’s major shows are passed, as it is expected that Cutler 25th will be a very hard bull to defeat. He is a very thick compactly made bull,' evenly proportioned, and stands well on short legs. He has the typical sire’s head and eye, a deep, full chest, level top, and exceptionally good hindquarters. Cutler 25th is one of the best bulls sired by Dale Cutler Junior (imp). Cutler 25th is from the Gay Princess tribe, which was one of the best families developed by the late James McKenzie. It was from his noted stud that all the foundation females for the Papatahi Stud were secured, and it is interesting to recall that Mr Holms had in earlier years also secured sires from the old McKenzie herd, so in his latest purchase in so far as the maternal line is concerned he is keeping to blood lines already proved at Waimahaka. Last year a new sire for the horned heard was also introduced at Waimahaka, as Mr Holms then selected a sire bred by Messrs Hutchinson Bros., of Gisborne.