A REMARKABLE JERSEY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 8

A REMARKABLE JERSEY.

ROSALIND OF OLD BASING.' Will an improved type of Jersey l>o developed is a question mat has caused considerable discussion, oi late among soino of the. dairy lnnuers oi Central ■> Alberta, writes' Mr. K'T. fisher in "Farm nnu Dairy." While not inclined to: place themselves positively on record wiiuout lurther observation ana a longer series of tests, many oi them aro inclined to tho opinion that under the wonderfully favourable climatic conditions prevailing in Central Alberta, and the richness or its pasture, there will eventually be developed a type of Jersey which will ho a distinct improvement on the original stock as found on the island that gives its naino to the breed. The discussion arose in connection with the remarkable record made by the wonderful cow Rosalind, of Old Basing in a three-year official test re-' ' .oently completed. '. Rosalind of Old Basing is the property of Mr. C. A. Julian Sharman, a farmer near Red Deer, Alberta, by w;hom she was raised. '. In the three-year test, the, following results were recorded:— Highest tnilk yield in one day, 521b. ■ ' Highest milk yield in ono month, Wljlb. ■''.'■■' :*,-' Highest milk yield in one year, 15,7001b. •■ Average-butter test, 5.16 per cent. ;. Butter in one year,'l,o3l.B9lb. , Butter in three years, 2,504.391b. Milk in three years, 37,847J1b. , This establishes a' new record for butter production, and places Rosalind .of Old Basing in the proud position of champion Jersey producer of the British. Em>pire. Besides the very desirable revenue from the sale of Rosalind's production of milk as shown above, she has produced three heifer calves,-tor which her owner has been offered arid has refused .£4(10. ' In considering'this record it must be ■remembered that- Mr. Sharman is not'a wealthy experimenter who could afford to "Obtain results at any cost. Rosalind's owner is. a farmer of moderate _ means, whose sole source of income is.his farm, and Rosalind, with the rest of the herd, was handled solely for profits, rather than for .championship honours, tho cow under test receiving exactly the same ration and treatment as the rest of the herd. At the banquet, recently given by the Board of Trade of Red Deer,, to do honour .'to Mr. Sharman, in consequence of his '.winning, the British; Empire championship, stock,men present remarked .of Rosalind (and similarly of other Jerseys raised in Alberta);..that she is bigger, heavier, arid a better milker, than her imported dam. Her progeny also promiso to be,fully tip to the Rosalind standard. It has long been recognised that tho Alberta beef animal on wild pasture, and rough, feed in the open in winter,, will turn off at greater weights'than-any qther animal in : the world under similar conditions. There would therefore seem:to he nothing unreasonable in the theory of tho dairymen that the: same 1 natural conditions will produce world-beating results in the dairy breeds. ;