JERSEY BREEDERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5504, 22 November 1929, Page 3

JERSEY BREEDERS.

MEETING AND DEMONSTRATION

INTERESTING EVENTS. At a meeting of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club on Saturday last, Mr J. K. Dean (president) presided over Messrs. G. Buchanan, H. J. ‘Harris, H. E. Hill, E. Hoffman, E. Jamieson, A. E. Missen, B. E. Veale, and C. Townshend (secretary). After the minutes and correspondence had been dealt with Mr Dean extended, on behalf of the club, a welcome to Mr Missen, ex-president of the New Zealand Association. " In replying Mr Missen thanked the club for its invitation to be present at the meeting, and later to officiate at the demonstration in the afternoon. Continuing, Mr Missen said that the New Zealand Jersey Breeders’ Association was to-day the second largest breeders’ association in the world, and that it continued to grow apace. Mr Missen’s address also covered the association’s scheme for helping breeders to purchase outstanding sires to improve the stud herds, the maximum amount available to one breeder being 300 guineas. The parent assox ciation was also fostering production classes at shows, said Mr Missen, and a group of a sire and three of his progeny who had certified records for production would be a feature of A. and P. shows in the future. The association was also subsidising this class. On the motion of Mr Buchanan the secretary was instructed to write and ascertain full particulars. .Mr Missen next dealt with the classifying of Jersey cattle. The present charges were £2 2s for the first animal and 10s each for any number thereafter. The three grades were V.H.C. (very highly commended), H.C. (highly commended), and C. (commended). This, concluded Mr Missen’s address, whereupon he intimated that he would answer any questions. Mr Buchanan said he thought the classifying scheme too expensive and exclusive, as it was an incentive for a breeder to parade his best animals only for classification. He moved that the Thames Valley Club recommend to the parent body that a scheme be evolved for classifying the whole of the registered Jerseys in the Dominion, the classifiers to be the guests of the clubs in the respective districts. The motion was carried. A vote of thanks to Mr Missen and the chairman concluded the meeting. Demonstration. The members then adjourned to be the guests of the president at an informal luncheon, after which an early departure was made for Mr W. E. Busch’s model farm on .the Waihi Plains, the venue of the demonstration. ' Here the breeders, augmented by many Waihi friends and numerous visitors, attended a lecture and demonstration by Mr Missen. Those who were privileged to be present had the benefit of Mr Missen’s lifes time study of the type, confirmation, and disposition on the Jei’sey animal. Breeders, young and old, listened with great attention, and to those ■with a retentive memory a wealth of Jersey knowledge was imparted. The breeders and visitors were then the guests of Mr and Mrs Busch at afternoon tea, and spent the remainder of the afternoon inspecting the model farm.