HIGH-CLASS PEDIGREE JERSEYS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1922, Page 7

HIGH-CLASS PEDIGREE JERSEYS.

SOUTH TARANAKI SALE. The Farmers’ Co-op. are holding a sale of pedigree Jerseys on behalf of leading South Taranaki Jersey breeders in and around the Manaia district, at their Manaia saleyards on Monday next, 26th inst., at 12 noon sharp. The catalogue displays pedigrees of 45 entries, comprising 28 heifers (yearlings and two-year-olds), 12 cows, 5 bulls (yearlings, upwards). On studying the pedigrees, which are-shown in. every detail, with -the butter-fat. returns and other relating to sCJO.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 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 (Manaia) and Charles Voullaire (Kaupokonui), have entered the'.whole of their pedigree cattle to be offered practically without reserve. Included in the lots 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; Pretty’s Princess, which heifer has produced under semiofficial test well over 400 lb butter-fat and is expected to make 500 Th of but-ter-fat by the tiriie she has completed her record; 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 lots which are worthy of mention, but as the spac* 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. Cara will leave the auctioneers’ Hawera office at 10 o clock on the morning of the sale. Catalogues are now obtainable on application to the auctioneers.