CONSTITUTION OF THE JERSEY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 29 November 1911, Page 10

CONSTITUTION OF THE JERSEY.

A DEFENDER OF THE BREED. The. ability of the Jersey to stand rough times has been ijiieitioiud frenunutlv. ;tnd instances have ahvuys been torthcoming lo show that the constitution of the .lersey is ;is strong as thai, ot most heavy yielders. Dismssing thi.> point al the Taranaki show, a prominent Jersey breeder said .that in fifteen years breeding in one of the coldest climates in New Zealand he had only lost one cow. It: was his practice lo rus -his stock, just before it came into profit, but lie had never rugged any of his voting stork, or anything that was. turned out. Referring to the value of rugging milkers, (ho dairyman in riuostion riiiDted the cases of men who lived almost alongside him, and were hardly able lo make both ends meet, simply because tlitv did not look after their cows and protect them from the cold nt night. If the Jersey was turned out lo rough it villi Shorlhorns, Hereforils. or anything else, the Jersey defender held that it would come in (rough nnd ugly no doubt), but olive where tbe other.i would ljo' dead. This last statement may be open to question, but. the balance of the argument will stand close looking al.