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Show Warnick Wins Highest Honors With Holstein Brattleboro, Vt. December 23 Climaxing years of; achievement, achieve-ment, Carnation Country Gentleman Gentle-man 765130 (G. P.), owned by Merrill N. Warnick, Pleasant Grove, Utah, has been awarded the highest honor a Holstein-j Friesian sire can attain. Hs wasi recently designated as a Gold j Medal Proven Sire by The Hol-stein-Friesian Association o f America. to qualify as a Gold Medal sire, daughters of this bull not only must have reached a high peak of milk Droduction. but also must have attained high standards of body conformation according to the ideal Holstein-Friesian score card. Of his 50 daughters which have been classified for type, 1 scored "excellent", the highest rating a Holstein can achieve, and 11 scored "very good". Average Aver-age score for all classified daughters daugh-ters was 81.3. Production-wise, 18 of his daughters have completed official offic-ial records in either Advanced Registry or Herd Test, and 11 of these exceeded the high Advanced Advanc-ed Registry requirements by 50 per cent or more. Highest among these was the record of 623 pounds fat made in Herd Test by Lady Dixie Sarina at the age of 3 years 4 months, being milked twice daily for 365 days. |