FROM JERSEY ISLAND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3126, 3 June 1942, Page 3

FROM JERSEY ISLAND

STUD STOCK SAVED VALUE TO DAIRYING A very unusual enterprise in present times was consummated recently when, the famous American importer and breeder, Mr Wallace MacMonnies, of New Jersey, U.S.A., landed safely in New Zealand a shipment of 17 high-class stud Jersey sires. Included were three highclass bulls bred on Jersey Island. One of these was actually bred in the leading herd on the island and shipped just prior to the outbreak of war. The other two bulls were imported to America in dam. Most of the other bulls in the shipment are by sires imported from Jersey Island, and the majority are out of dams that were also imported. The importation of such a large number of outstanding animals representing the best blood strains in the Jersey breed should be of incalculable value to breeders in the Dominion, as in the future it will not be possible to duplicate their breeding as there is little doubt that the famous studs on Jersey Island were decimated by the Germans after their occupation.

This shipment of cattle had a very eventful trip to New Zealand but all were safely landed. Apart from the breeding of these animals some of them have notable show careers in the leading State Fairs of America, and include winners of the National Dairy Show, the leading Jersey show of the world.

Mr MacMonnies has long been looked on as' a man of great enterprise, and that he has been able to safely send to the Dominion such a high-class.shipment of young Jersey sires in times like the present is indeed a most noteworthy achievement. The cattle are quarantined in New Zealand sixty days after landing, and it is intended to sell them at auction at Wellington in June, when no doubt breeders fror

all parts of the Dominion will endeavour to attend as the collection is stated to be the highest in quality ever to have been shipped to New Zealand.