PEDIGREE JERSEYS

Northland Age, Volume 25, Issue 16, 13 August 1925, Page 5

PEDIGREE JERSEYS

VALUABLE IMPORTATIONS Mr. D. Johns one, of Awanui, is a farmer who realizes that the salvation of the Northland lies in the introduction of modern fanning methods and first class dairy catlte. At the eighth annaul sale of Rosy Creek Jersv hePers aed bulls on account • ot Messrs A. and J. O’Donnell at Hawera * (Taranaki) recently Mr., Johnstone paid the top price of 77 guineas for Viola's Golden Peace, whose dam, Perfection of Rosy Creek, pioduced 575 lbs butterfat as a junior two-year-old. Mr. Johnstone’s purchase has every evidence of being a heavy producer, her three nearest dams all hav’ng C. O. R. records which average together approximately 620 lbs. of butterfat. At the same sale Mr. Johnstone purchased the heifer Lady Zola for 43 guineas, considered by good judges to be the bargain of the sale, for this heifer is out of the same dam as the good medallist, Zola of Rosy Creek, 741 lbs butterfat as a junior three-year-old, Lady Zola’s sire being Cains, who is out of the same dam as button’s Daisv, 968 lb fat. At Mr. Frank Days Waikato sale of pedigree jetseys last week Mr. Johnatone was also a buyer and these are expecfed to arrive by' the Apanui on Monday. Mr. Johnstone's present herd sire is from a gold medallist—Peggy’s Queen, holder of the Jersey Breeder’sgold medal for 1919 9 with aC.O. R. record of 696 lbs. butterfat.