PEDIGREE JJRSEYS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1922, Page 3

PEDIGREE JJRSEYS.

SOUTH TARANAKI SALE. The Farmers’ Co-op. are holding a sale °f pedigree Jerseys on behalf of leading South Taranaki Jersey breeders in and around the Manaia district, at their Manaia saleyards on Monday, 2Gth inst. The catalogue displays pedigrees of 45 entries, comprising 28 heifers (yearlings and two-yeai«-olds), 12 cows, 5 bulls (yearlings upwards). On studying the pedigrees, which are shown in every detail, with the butter-fat returns and other particulars relating, to C.O.R. daughters, etc., it will ‘be seen that the lots to be offered will stand up to the criticism of the keenest judges in the Jersey world. All those noted sires— Majesty’s Fox, K.C.8., Eminent Fontaine, Roberts. Campanile Sultan. Lord Twylish. Molina’s General, The Squire. Brighton Twylish, Hollybank Squire, Admiral of Puketapu, Una’s Nobility, Magnet’s Boy, Charm’s Lord Twylish, Petune’s Noble, The Doctor, etc.—-appear quite frequently in the pedigrees of tls various lots. On the other hand it will be found that the dams are all descendants of the Dominion’s foremost butterfat. families.

Two vendors, Messrs. Charles Jones (Manqia) and Charles Voullaire (Kaupokonui), have entered the whole of their pedigree cattle to be offered practically without reserve. Included in the lota are Shamrock’s Sweet, which cow made a C.O.R. record last year of 6971b5. butter-fat; Shamrock’s Jewel, a two-year-old heifer, a daughter of Shamrock’s Sweet; and Ayesha’s Beauty, a two-year-old heifer by .Hollybank Squire, and for which as a calf an offer of 120 guineas was refused. There are many others in the catalogue lota which are worthy of mention, but as the space will not permit, those interested are referred. to the catalogue.

Other breeders represented are: Messrs. S. J. Bennett, Karl Rothe, R. Gibson, Geo. Cowling, J. J. Carpenter, E. Long and D- Hurley. Besides the pedigrees a fine lot of two-year-old grade Jersey in-calf heifers on account of Mr. Jones will be offered under the hammer.

Cars will leave the auctioneers’ H&wera office at 10 o’clock on the morning of the sale, for which seats must be hooked 48 hours beforehand. Catalogues are now obtainable on application to the