VALUABLE JERSEY BULL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 6, 2 October 1917, Page 10

VALUABLE JERSEY BULL

RECENT IMPORTATION FliOM THE ISLAND. A very valuable importation of a Jersey bull has just been made by the wellknown Jersey, breeder, Mr. is. 11. Lancaster, of Palnierston North. The purchase was niade from the herd of Mr. E. E. Leonard, of Jersey Island, and the ' bull has now landed safelj\ in Wellington in excellent order and condition. The animal is named Maiden's Glory Lad, and claims as relation 6uch wellknown sires and dams as Maiden's Boy , and White Maiden, "Nobis of Oaklands, and Lady Viola', others closely related being Golden Maid's Prince, . Mabel Raleigh, Jessie Bertha, and other. V 1 prize-winners both in ring and at ilium., White Maiden, the dam of Maiden's (jlory Lad,' jn an official test, as a three jear-old heifer; produced in 161 days '4031b. actual butter-fat, and was s.oon afterwards sold to go to New York for 100 guineas. The sire, Haiden's Boy, was sho.wn twice on Jersey Island, each time gaining first award.

. On- hearing of this purchase, the wellknown Jersey Island breeder, Mr. P. Le Mourant, -wrote Mr. Lancaster congratulating him on having secured sucii a bull, and ventured opinion that Maiden's Glory Xad would procreate cattle of sterling dairy qualities and prove an acquisition to many Jersey herds in the Doihiniop. Jersey breeders generally will .be interested in . this fresh importation, and •will no doubt applaud Mr. Lancaster's enterprise in bringing out the bull during such troublous times, and ivTien freights and other charges are so high. The purchase ivas made through Dalgety and Company, Ltd., who also attended to all shipping arrangements.

' The heavy -winds of the past week in the AVairarapa had, says our Carterton correspondent, a telling effect upon a number of grain, crops in • lliei district, some of which are now'being thrashed.

. The famous Victor Cheese Tats are the manufacture of A. J. Parton, Carterton. Every Vip-to-date cheese factory should use one.' Orders should be placed right now, because the steel shortage is making itself felt, and 'so ordefs can only be executed in rotation., AI ,T. Parton, Sheet Metal and Plumbing Works, Pembroke Street, Carterton—Advt.