WHAT IS A GRADE COW?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 10

WHAT IS A GRADE COW?

f' ' EXPERTS IN-DEEP WATER. • - k l ;.'-While Jlr. Gmvn .Has: endeavouring at*: tho to give \eli:eot to;;his ideas of what '• '.. constituted a "di-y mare,". Mr. K' Eagle,• jun., thb :Judge.of jjferseys,-;was' searching .'lor a ro- ' .cognised definition of a "grade cow." lie ea-: r , : tered his query,, in: tho judge's book/ and lie K|si'S , maii;in.?tho "street''.(every■ "man ; in' I ;the street" at l{awi>ra is a cow expert).' But lie j got \ery raued lephes. -grade' Jersey,"' said one,'."is: adTaiiimal pit has a puro. Jersey as bjib 'of ! tors. > ~ , f ls tho general mow,"'said My Eagle, i^r6iig.viU l KatVwrttld.-be : S ;i-«nly ■■••a.haUbjfed■ Jeftjctf." ■' -'rv j..;;.. a Bradq," ■ they : all' ; fshoutcd. : .'j- c-.&i'i r - ' ' replied ■; breeder."* [Ws^i»:i; I l : ®o»sider : that 'tho gratia must be something better thanhalfbred. I think it should-be a pft witho^ar®djgfeeV^";^ W^anJiowjwould jauvprove'ifc'-is-purebred?" asked 50meb0dy.....;... v..U' ' : a 1 Eagle,<"when'..';bnlis : axe' : VP u ? « with :■ tho J Jie'rd ithb'wvnor.'rmay know that all the I calves.arG/-purebrcd,but,ho, J not bo able' to state-tho exact'parentage." f.*' *..-' . :•\ "Then the' grade, coir' at '£.shaw istiorifd.-jiii ' the.eyes of.'the judge.-appcar in reality as .purebred'.Jerseys'•• |fSSS purebred 1 -v '• .'.? ows > tho progeny are. grades," suggested a .SK;l: ; roniij{rom;)tho'back-blocksl : ''r'i^ • *?vPB,;6f-j!"Npes. # 'i:';:ys";. !|;Wv' Eagle; said-'lie^considered'/a : g'rade - cow ■ ehould be, .to all appearance.■ purebred,-and bo. ' •.. from pure parentage, though' without 1 the pre- . QxS; ■,&Bcribed .pedigree;: but ■he ..wished' 1 that the siibfi- .. - - iect .inignt be- discussed-by ctha-proper authoriI.- -~v Jk, s aud a- definition Jaid down. . It'was observed-that if ,Mr. Eagle's"defint . . arise. a demand for classes .for "halfbreda" at j TARANAKI A. AND P, SHOW. (By STeleffraDh—Press - Association.) ' N?w Plymouth, December 1. •C .. • . Tho iTaninaki 'Agricultural .; Society's show ff!f?;;?<.;v:"opehedHo-day; numerous and t."j.. ■' : of- high - quality,tho' principal" featnro being kw t'he Jersoy3; which, are declared'by experts to be - tho best over brought together. in New i- Zealand. '4'hero was a.littie.rain this morning, j but it is now clcariDg. ' ' ' . |; s';■' ■■■ : ' CODLXN MOTH IN' APPLES AND PEARS, p'• . v.. —A oortain -romody. is ; Swift's ; Arsonato of I:; : Contiauo at inlorvals throughout tho.-fiens^n^