JERSEY HERDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 3

JERSEY HERDS.

TOVE LA'FRANCE FINISHES ANOTHER TEST. n Julyl6 Vive La France finished fifth consecutivefull year's official -. with a record of 816.0Ubs of fat, i the Jersey Bulletin, of August 31 ■>.' This puts her more, than ooOlbs ad of the world's record long-dis-ce length of time, and over 6401bs ad of the Jersey world's record cow, hie 19th of Hood Farm, lor the ie number of years. It is true that y Alrartra has three moro completrecords, and Sophie 19th has five, Tilly's last record wag made at 13 ?. of age, and Sophie's at 15, and 5s now only seven years old. She atfe in calf and will again freshen for ss AA, as she did when she made world's record. Jan anyone who studies these records bt that long before Vive reaches age of the other two cows she will c the long-distance record safely ked away? Please note that she is only cow in the world that ever de two records of over lOOOlbs of .• And she did it in consecutive Jra. She is the only cow in the ;ld to make a world's record for two rs in succession—junior three-year-and junior four-year-old. She is > only cow in. the world to hold three rld's' records at the same age. She d the junior three and junior four $ the world's record for all ages, de as a junior four-year-old. She' i made four official records and had >pped five calves before she was seven irs old. Now coming eight years old, » looks fit to make a new wprld'e :ord for all ages. Mr Pickard, howiTj has decided not to run her for a rld's record, but to get about an )lb record each year and go after the ig distance record without crowding foow hard. Vive La France is the greatest daugh- • of Golden Glow's Chief, the great Id and silver medal bull who has rty daughters in the Register of erit. Much could be said of her dam, igar-in-the-Barrell, and her grandm. Birdie- la France, and a review their records, offspring, etc., would p doubt be of interest. But that is H't the object of this little story. It is ither to show the relation of a conructive breeder, as well as & great jrdsraap, to the performance oT a peat cow J>? and of the reputation iven her sire. Of Golden Glow's Chief's forty daughts in the Register of Merit, Pickard ros. bred twenty-three. When it is uown that Golden Glow's Chief was • years old when Mr Ovid Pickard Bfht him, and that he paid £150 for inr,-the significance of this fact stands at more clearly. The records of the Mir highest 'daughters of Golden Jow's' Chief average 905.741bs of fat, nd the Pickards bred all four of them, [is eight highest daughters average 60.211b5., and the Pickards bred six F them. He was the best breeder and est developer of this great bull's aughters, and but for Ovid Pickard it lay be doubted if Golden Glow's Chief 'ould have held any such, high place n Jersey history as he does and always just have. Other things to the credit of the 'ickard Bros, as breeders and -dairymen, is having bred four cows that held our world's records at one time. They >red ten cows that average 8441bs of at, at an average of four years and our months. Only three of these were «sted in the Pickard herd. They inraded the show; ring as. well as the record of production, and have bred, three iows that have been grand champions it the leading shows of the West, the Oregon state fair, and the Pacific International. Their average official score, by Mr Harry Jenkins, is 97.5. Not alone the daughters of Golden Glow's Chief bred by the Pickards have made great They have bred R number of "others, among them, Chief Engineer's Viola, 7161b5, a, gold medal cow; Darling Jolly Lassie. 554.55 lbs, Class AA, and other young cows that are on test and making great records for aae.* ' One of their bulls, Gertie's Oallant Stamp, will be a siiver medal Trail this year. Lady Silken Glow, s f-rand-dauenter of Golden' Glow's Chief *>f their breeding;, has 8251bs of fat t'( lier credit in a little over nine and one-

half months. Mr Ovid Piekard, when he realised this, set out to pass the 10001b mark with her, and it is pretty safe to say he will. These are a few of the things accomplished by Pickar'd Bros, as breeders of high record Jerseys. More could be enumerated if one wished to go into detail. These men were handicapped by lack of wealth and lack of women. Both are bachelors. Ovid is the "cow man,"1' and his brother is the farmer. No one ever heard Ovid speak a harsh word to a cow. His cows are his pets, on which he lavishes his love. He likes best to have a few to care for, and gives them such care as delights him and brings great production, from them. The brothers ure buying the farm they are on at Marion, Ore., and need a new 'barn. They have decided to sell most of their herd, and in October all but Ovid's particular pets will go over the auction block. He has a world's record or two he intends to go after, and he does not want to neglect the rest of his herd, as he has been compelled to some years while making a world's record. When you see that a daughter of Vive la France is on test next time, j keep your eye on the 501b list, for the ' senior three-year-old record will be in danger. Some wonderful family is that of Vive La France and her produce, j