Hunt: Selecting Holstein-Friesian Sires 



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A PRODUCT OF CAREFULLY SELECTED MATINGS 

 Lady Colantha Walker (365573) has a record of 17,843 pounds of milk, 546 pounds of fat, at 

 the age of two years and two months. The top male line of her pedigree for five generations shows 

 an unbroken line of great breeding sires, at the head of which is Sarcastic Lad, through whose 

 sons have come some of the best producing strains of this breed. In addition to their ability 

 to transmit high production, the value of the sires may be seen in the records of their daughters. 

 (Photo from U. S. Dept. of Agri.) (Fig. 25.) 



of Maplewood, which transmits down 

 through one line, Pontiac Korndyke, 

 the sire of King of the Pontiacs, while 

 down through the second lineage, 

 Jack Mercedes, the sire of Sir Pietertje 

 Ormsby Mercedes. This family is 

 very closely related to the DeKols. In 

 fact, the different lines have been 

 interbred a great deal, and it is hard to 

 state which lineage has produced the 

 most wonderful results. 



Another line of breeding is the 

 Sarcastic Lad, which is distantly related 

 to Netherland Prince, the founder of 

 the Manor DeKol line if breeding, 

 including such wonderful sires as 

 DeKol 2d Butter Boy 3d. From the 

 Sarcastic Lad line of breeding comes 

 such famous animals as Holmstead Girl 

 DeKol Sarcastic Lad, Woodcrest Tehee 



Star Farm Johanna Lad, Sir Korndyke 

 Cornucopia, and many others. 



From the above lines of breeding 

 you will find all the high producing 

 sires of the breed, with the exception 

 of a small family which we shall desig- 

 nate as Admiral Walker, the sire of 

 Walker Pietertje and the grandsire 

 of King Walker. 



In selecting herd sires for purebred or 

 grade herds of Holstein-Friesians, where 

 you desire high yearly production, 

 it seems necessary that the pedigree 

 should contain as many animals as is 

 possible that are found in the lineage as 

 presented in Table VI. It certainly is 

 very forcibly brought out that the high 

 producing cows come from certain defi- 

 nite lines of breeding, and that cer- 

 tain other lines of breeding are not 



