JERSEY CATTLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 8

JERSEY CATTLE.

VALUABLE YEARLING BULL, I 'Writing of the valnablo Jersey bull •which is being imported by Mr. C. Good; : ' i son, of Hawera, the "Taranaki Herald appears to be the most valnablo Jersey yet imported into New Zealand has just b?en purchased.by Mr. Charles Goodson, of Hawera, through the agency k of Mr. E.. Griffiths, of New Plymouth. The animal is a yearling bull which has : just won first prizs over 'Jersey Island at their big animal fair held a few days ! • ago. . This is tho. first bull winning the I first prize over the island which has ever i been purchased for New Zealand. Naturally an unusually long price had to bo paid, but Mr. Goodson had mado up his mind to have no other but. the and i the price asked did not put him off. As the purchasing was made by cable full i particulars are not yet* available, but two essentials were stipulated—firstly, that he ' > 6hould Ixi a son of the groat champion Noble of Oaklands; and secondly, that his ! dam should belong to a family noted for its butter-fat production. All that _ is known at the moment is that he has just won first prize'oyer the island, that he' ; is a son of Noble of Oaklands, and also ; ! that his grffad-dam has an official public ' Tecord of 2lb. Boz. of butter in oho day, I and as a Jersey pound is equal to 18oz. ' this record is equal to 19Jlb. of butter in ! ' n week, and if the test had been made I at the animal's home instead of at the i, fair grounds it would undoubtedly have ( been much bigger. . . . Bis mother, i Lady Viola.'won the first prize over the island of Jersey in tho butter-fat con- : tpst, and for three years running she won file same event in England. A trio of 'Stratford breeders recently imported a i ran of Noble of Oaklands, and now that Mr. Goodson lias purchased another Tara- ; jiaki is indeed fortunate."