5S South Devon Cattle. 



Leaving South Africa, let us turn to South Australia. Mr: 

 A. S. Chirnside, of Colac, one of the chief stock owners in 

 Victoria, impressed with the high distinction gained by South 

 Devons in butter and milk tests, as well as by their massive 

 appearance, determined to acquire a herd for his Coragulac 

 Estate, and he personally secured Mr. N. Boon's (Malborough) 

 bull Reiv Style (3016), by Duke, and a grandson of Masher, 

 the progenitor of some of the best South Devons, for 70 guineas 

 at the 1908 spring sale of the Herd Book Societj', and also 

 purchased eleven cows from the late Mr. W. P. Vosper. Three 

 years later the herd had multiplied to forty, and they were in 

 the pink of condition after one of the most severe winters 

 experienced in Victoria, the herd thriving splendidly, so much 

 so that Mr. Chirnside, although possessing some high-class blood 

 in Shorthorns, had decided to devote himself entirely to South 

 Devons. The cows Janet, Alexa^idra, Carnation, and Gentle 

 calved to English sires. For three months — September to 

 November ir^clusive — Janet gave 5,017 lb. of milk and 217 lb. 

 of butter ; Ah-xandra 3,643 lb. of milk and 170 lb. of butter ; 

 and Carnation 3,912 lb. of milk and 161 lb. of butter. Not 

 only has Reiv Style, Avhich has wonderfully developed, left a fine 

 impression on the herd, but the South Devons received a fine 

 advertisement at Melbourne when he was awarded the Royal 

 Agricultural Show Championship, the reserve being awarded 

 to Alvie Ham, a son of the champion. The blue ribbon for 

 females went to Mr. A. E. T. Payne's imported South Devon 

 cow, Rosebud 2nd. The thirteen South Devons in the show 

 created a most favourable impression. 



Mr. Grigg says of the consignment imported from Messrs. 

 Wood and Whitley's herds to Canterbury, New Zealand, that 

 " they arrived in excellent condition and have been much 

 "admired by thoroughly competent judges. Very probably as 

 " the breed becomes better known a strong demand will arise 

 " for them in the large and important dairying districts of the 

 " North Island as well as in the South." 



Cyprus has received a foundation herd during the year 

 from Mr. John Wood, of Totnes, and the Director of Agri- 

 culture in that island expressed his satisfaction with them, and 

 stated that they speedily settled down to strange conditions. 



Such experiences cannot fail to have their effect, and that 

 must eventually be to the benefit of South Devon breeders, 

 who must direct their energies as in the past to seeing that in 

 the development of a breed which invariably is well covered 

 with natui-al flesh, and turns its food to good nccount, the 

 milking propex'ties are maintained side by side with bulk and 

 quality. 



