JERSEY COWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8901, 22 August 1907, Page 2

JERSEY COWS.

Per Vil'.-.: Association. Kew Pltmoutii, August 21. Events would Eeem to show that in Taraiiaki at least there is no disposition to rely on tiio statement oft repeated lately that tho demand for the Jersey breed of cattle is a passing eraze and likely to go out of fashion.

At an unreserved sale of Mr Watkin's Jersey strain herd here to-day prices were realised which it is believed establish a record for the Colony. Pedigree cows in milk sold ono at ,£3O and two at £4O each. Pedigree springing cows sold at respectively .£25, £l3, .£24, .£36, .£3l, .£29, .£l4, Mi, Jiii:>, £oo, £43, ,£22, and a four-year-old cow by Goldfinch realised £lOl. Springing heifers made £22, £2-1, £27, .£3O, £1(5: yearling heifers Mid, £2l, £2,2, £?A, £27, £2B ; calves £G, £l6, £ls, £.1.8, £2O, £23, £2l, £l9, £l7, £4O. The imported pedigree bull "Yankee Sweet" fetched £125. Other bulls from seven months to two years sold at £l2, £ls, .£l7, £2l, £23, £2O, £3l, £3B, £4G. For grade Jersey catt'o a large number of yearling heifers brought from £-i 5s to £lO. Buyers hailed from all over the West Coast. Tho pure bred Jersey herd is being sold to-morrow.