JERSEY COWS
RECORD PRICES IN TARANAKI. Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 21. Events would seem to show that in Taranaki at least there is no disposition to rely on the statement repeat-, ed lately that the demand for the Jersey breed of cattle is a passing oraze likely to go out of fashion. At an unreserved sale of Mr. Watkins’ Jersey strain here to-day prices were realised which are believed to establish a record for the colony. Pedigree cows in milk were sold —on© - at £3O and two at £4O each. Pedigree springing cows sold ait £25, £43, £24, £3G, £3l, £29, £l4, £44, £35, £55, £45, £22, and a five-year-old cow by Goldfinch realised £lO4. Springing lieifers made £22, £24. £27, £39, £46; yearling heifers, £l9, £2l. £22, £24, £27, £2B; calves, £6, £l6! £ls. £IS, £2O, £23, £2l, £l9, £l7, £4O! The imported pedigree bull “Yankee Sweet’’ fetched £125. Otheir bulls, from seven months to two years, sold at £l2, £ls, £l7, £2l, £23, £26, £3l, £BB, £46. For grade Jerseycattle a large number of yearling heifers brought from 45s to £lO. Buyers hailed from all over the West Coast. Another pure-bred Jersey herd is being sold to-morrow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2165, 22 August 1907, Page 2
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