STOCK-BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14282, 3 August 1908, Page 5

STOCK-BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION

' FORWARD MOVEMENTS. (FliOM Oint OvfJC CORRESPONDENT.) > AUCKLAND, August ]. '• Tho Now Zealand Shcop-brcedcra' Assou nation lias forwarded intimation to the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association that a champion silver shield will 1« offered [or competition at tlie next, Auck--1 land agricultural show in the Shropshire t ram ckiss. The .Tcreoy Cattle-breeders As--1 Eoeiation is olFerius a gold medal lor the championship in the Jersey bull class and a gold medal in Iho Jersey cow class. PALMERRTON N„ August. 1. 1 At a. meeting of the New Zealand Jersey t Cattlc-breedcra' Association, held thismorq- . ing, there were present representatives from | the Wairarapa and local districts. A resolution of particular importance to Jersey breeders was passed, to this effect.—" That a. •' register be kept, and a. herd book compiled J of all pure registered Jersey cows capable of showing not less than 12lb of butter fat, ■, or making not less than 141b of butter per 3 wc-ok, and under the followinc; conditions: Public tests lo bo undertaken by A. and P. Associations, supervised by the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture, such to be not less than four days, and the system that adopted bv the Manawatu A. and P. Association. The results shall lx; averapod for fully seven days on the basis of such' tot." It was also resolved th*» the association offer prizes of £5 and a |*r.|d medal for a registered dairy cow. or £5 for a cow by a ic.wtercd dairy bull, securing the host rcsulis under the conditions prescribed by the council [or butter-fat tests ; conducted under direction of any A. and P. e ; Association,