JERSEY SALE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10905, 3 September 1932, Page 2

JERSEY SALE

WORLD’S RECORD BUTTERPAT ENTRY. To mark its existence of a decade, the National Jersey Show and Sale has drawn a world’s record entry of butterfat bulls. This sale established by Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., for the purpose of assembling the Dominion’s best bulls, will be held at the Glaudelands A. and P. Show Grounds, Hamilton, on September 14 and 15. New conditions of entry for this sale have been drawn up, which are exclusively for bulls of thoroughly proved butterfat backing. This progressive step met with spontaneous support from the leading breeders of the Dominion and the auctioneers are able to report that they have an offering which has had no equal from the point of butterfat anywhere in the world. Choicest bulls from the leading studs of practically every dairying district in the North Island and Nelson in the South Island will be found at this sale. Of particular interest will be the son of Woodlands Felicie who has just completed her test with 1220 lb. fat as a four-year-old, which gives her the world’s championship for her age, and world’s championship of the breed over all ages. The famous imported sire, Sybil’s Volunteer, himself a champion and sire of championship winners in four different countries, provides an opportunity to buy one of the world’s greatest living sires. There is also the magnlflciently bred sire Holly Oak Superlative, who claims Grannie’s Knight c.b.b. for his sire, and Lady Superior, 2nd. els. c.o.r. 9971 b. fat for his dam. There are sons of V.H.C. cows with records up to 8491 b. fat, and as shown in the advertisement appearing in this Issue there are a host of bulls from dams with records ranging from 500 to 8001 b. butterfat. Added to these are some thirty-five sons of famous imported sires and forty sons and grandsons of champion butterfat bulls. There are some bulls with wonderful records behind them for generations. These show as many as eighteen tested cows in one pedigree averaging up to G2slb. fat. What a wonderful opportunity buyers will have to make their selections from such a collection of beautifully bred bulls. It should not be overlooked that every animal before entering the ring will be passed by the Classification Committee of the N.Z. Jersey Breeders’ Assn., so that every lot is checked both for breeding and for type. The prices ruling for dairy produce during the past two seasons has shown the absolute necessity for maximum production, and as the sire is the governor of the herds productive capacity, this sale suggests an unusual opportunity to secure bulls which are so strongly bred for butterfat that they must substantially raise the standard of the herds, into which they go. At the ruling values for pedigree bulls there is no sounder investment than a sire bred on the proved lines of the National offering.