PEDIGREE JERSEYS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 4

PEDIGREE JERSEYS

— i I. —^ CONSIGNMENT FOR NEW ZEALAND. BUTTER-FAT PRODUCERS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 6th December. A better consignment of Jersey cattle for butter-fat production has probably never left this country than the c&nsigniiienfc of two bulls and three heifers which will go out by the s.s. Matatua to-morrow from the Royal Albert Docks. The cattle are for a Hawera breeder, who has been in England for six months trying to procure the very best butterploducing strain of Jersey cattle. According to reliable judges, an excellent selection has been made ,n,nd the consignment, in time, will without doubt, help to improve the dairy herds of New Zealand. On both sire and dam side every animal is full of the best strains of butter-fat 2 j roducers there are in this country. The following are the names and pedigrees of the cattle:— > Westwood Baron (18 months old. Sire DaVenport, dam Butterfly U.) Westwodd Baron Was reserve champion at both the Norfolk and Suffolk shows this year, and although third at the London Royal Dairy Show, he yet won the special prize for bull bred on best but-ter-fat-producing lines. He descends on hia sire's side from Mon. Plaiser's King, who won first prize at the' Royal Jersey Association Show in 1904, and the great cow RonzePs Pet 11th, who won the butter-fat test at the same show in the same year. His dam, Butterfly 11, won the E.J.C. Society's prize at the Royal Counties Show, 1912, with a record of 21b 7^oz of butter-fat in a day from 361b of milk, 124 days after calving. Robin Hood (calved 12th June, 1911), sire Britannicuß, dam La Roblette 9th. Through his sire, this bull descends frota such noted animals as Noble of Oaklands, who was sold for £3000, and L'a<}y Vipla, who, at twelve years of age, was sold for £1400; and on his dam's side there are the well-known butter-fat producers— Trial of Oaklands, Agatha's Flying Fox, Lord Wolseley, and Crown Princess. Robin Hood was reserve champion at the Sussex Show, and first prize at the East Kent Show, both this year. Charming Valentine (calved 31st July, 1911, sire Barrister's Valentine, dam Charm). This heifer this year was reserve champion at the Suffolk Show, first at Norfolk, and second at East Kent, and is descended on the sire's side from noted ' butter-fat producersBarrister and Chief Justice—while Barrister Valentine's dam, Landlady, was a big prize-winher at both the inspection classes and the butter-test at the Royal Jersey Association Shows. Her dam, Charm, won first prize at the Chiltern Hills and South Berks Show in 1907 for butter-fat production, her record being 211£lb of milk producing 18ilbof buttei Ifat in seven days. Charm's dam, Greenhill's Buttercup 3rd, was awarded the E.J.C.S. certificate of merit at the' Royal Jersey Association Show, 1902, for one day's production— 3olb Boz of milk proI ducihg 21b of butter fat 199> days after calving. , i Westwood Belle (calved Ist August, 1911, sire Crown Prince^ dam L^Anmore Belle)- > On,both sides this heifer's breeding is full of the best butter-fat strains. Her sire was first i prize winner at the South Bucks Show m 1910, and< was reserve champion at Liverpool and Tunbridge Wells the same year, Her grandsire, Jolly Jim, won teil firsts and two champion prizes, including first at the Royal Show, London, 1905. Her. dam was first at Hereford audlWbrcesterj, and wOn the-E.J.C.Si certificate of merit in the butter-fat teSfc- at the London Dairy. Sh6w in 1907— and in 1908 won firsts, at Hereford, Worcester, and Kidderminster. L'Anmore Belle's record for 1908 was 9.74Ubs of milk, average test. 6.4; for 1909 9.4421bs of milk, average test 6.5. Westwood Purity (calved 31st July, 1911. Sire, Crown Prince, dam Primrose Phyllis). This heifer this year was first at Sussex, second at Norfolk, and reserve champion at' Essex. Her dam yielded in 1911, 10.4531bs of milk, with an average test of 6.1. Her grand-dam, Primrose Day, in 1897, won the E.J.C.S. certificate in the butter-test at the Tring Show, and in the following year was first in milking trials and the butter test, and again wort the E.J.C.S. certificate of merit at Tring. Her record for one day's butter yield was 21bs ilioz from 50lbs ef mill?. In subsequent years Primrose Day ako won butter tests at various shows, securing" in 1904 the &J.C.S. gold medal at the Royal Show, London, her two days' performance feeing 41bs 12£oz frota 971bs of milk 160 days after calving.