Hunt: Selecting Holstein-Friesian Sires 



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LONE STAR PONTIAC SEGIS (239068) 

 A daughter of King Segis Pontiac Count, owned by the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Her 

 record at the age of four years and two months was 21,355.3 pounds of milk, containing 680.33 

 pounds of butterfat. A daughter of this cow, by the unrelated sire, Piebe Laura Ollie Homestead 

 King, 110474, has a record at the age of two years and one month of 16670.7 pounds of milk, 

 containing 498.33 pounds of fat. A daughter of this latter cow, grand-daughter of Lone Star 

 Pontiac Segis, and sired by a son of King Segis Pontiac Count, has a record at the age of two years 

 and two months of 14,319.6 pounds of milk containing 445.22 pounds of fat. Photo from U. S. 

 Dept. of Agri. (Fig. 22.) 



have 9, five have 8, five have 7, four 

 with six daughters, seventeen with 

 5 daughters each, twenty-seven have 

 4 daughters each, forty nine have 

 3 daughters, one hundred and six 

 have 2 daughters each, and 999 have 

 one daughter each, with a p -oduction 

 equivalent to or greater than 600 

 pounds butterfat. 



This list of sires is very similar to 

 those found in Tables III and IV. 

 By referring to the genealogy table, 

 you will note that they are very closely 

 related, and that this fact is brought out 

 very clearly that it is important, in 

 selecting a herd sire, to select one from 

 a lineage where there is uniformly 

 high production. The mere fact that 

 a sire has one high producing daughter 



does not mean that he is going to 

 transmit high production to all his off- 

 spring. In this study, every sire listed 

 undoubtedly has the ability to transmit 

 high production to his offspring. 



In studying the genealogy table, 

 it brings out most forcibly that certain 

 blood lines are capable of transmitting 

 high production, and that certain 

 other blood lines, not included in this 

 genealogy table, are not capable of such 

 production. It is unreasonable its 

 believe that other families or blood lines 

 have not been in the hands of good 

 dairymen who understand feeding, 

 and who gave their cattle good atten- 

 tion and the opportunity to make high 

 records, but we do not find these in- 



