JERSEYS AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 December 1907, Page 3

JERSEYS AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Says the "Xew Zealand Times":The display of Jersey stoek at New Plymouth this year was the finest display of Channel Island cattle yet made in Taranaki. It was induced, of course, by the remarkable demand which has sot in this season in Taranaki for bulb of the breed, the farmers of the big butter fat province liaving come to realise that the Jersey bull can be relied on to impart undoubted dairy qualities to their herds. Few dairymen will use a Shorthorn now, owing to the difficulty of securing bulls of a dairy type. There was a demand for some years for Holsteins, but fanners were victimised too often by having grades palmed off as puro-bmls, and the fact that anything liaving a black and white colour was regarded as a Ilolstein, which is prejudicing farmers against the blood, has done great injury to an undeniably great breed. The Ayrshire will not be looked at, especially by the share milker, who regards with little favour a breed which 100 often produces small-tented ami hard-textured cows. A good class of daily stock is, however, available, and if the poor Jerscv is a runt and the sleets of little value, the breed lias the best of dairy qualities absolutely fixed in it. and the fanner can thus rely on advancing the butter-fat production capacity of his stoek by its use.