JERSEY ISLAND CATTLE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 359, 9 October 1930, Page 6

JERSEY ISLAND CATTLE.

SHIPMENT FOR DOMINION. Many great prize-vanning cattle in the Royal and other important shows on Jersey Island are included in the latest shipment of Jersey .cattle for New Zealand. The shipment is not only the most valuable, but the largest that has ever reached New Zealand, as it comprises 21 head. Of these, 13 head were prize-winners and the balance are mostly young stock from the dams in the shipment and which were sired by the leading champions and sires on the Island prior to shipment to America, where the cattle were domiciled for six months before being shipped to New Zealand. The cattle were selected by Mr. H. Toose, of Wellington, one of the best known authorities on the Jersey breed in New Zealand, who was fortunate in having the assistance of Mr. T. S. Cooper, junr., Linden Grove, U.S.A., and Mr. Perree, head of the Herd Book Society on Jersey Island, in selecting this shipment for New Zealand. Mr. Toose knows exactly the class of cattle required in the Dominion to further improve the breed, and Mr. Cooper and Mr. Perree were able to give him full particulars of the outstanding breeding and producing families on the Island. It was said when the cattle were finally brought together for shipment to New Zealand that they were the highest class collection that had ever left Jersey Island in the one consignment. The distribution -of these cattle throughout the herds in New Zealand should eventually prove of tremendous value. It has long been felt that the indiscriminate im-

porting to the Dominion of cattle from America and Jersey Island was not in the best interests of the dairy industry here, and at one stage a movement was started with the idea of preventing the American exporters from shipping to New Zealand. What was required in New Zealand was not cattle of the dolly type, or j'ust show annmals, but sires and dams which represented the very best breeding families on the Island, and which were themselves the best types of their respective sex which could be procured on the Island. It is only with this class that an improvement in the breed in New Zealand can be expected.