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Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 19

DAIRY PROFITS The Jersey is a special-purpose cow. She has been bred for milk and butter-fat alone for hundreds of years. On the dairy farm she is, of all dairy breeds, the smallest eater and the greatest producer of butter-fat. The most economical producer. A few years ago the New Zealand dairy herds were all of the dual-purpose type—neither one thing nor the other; butter was worth about 4d per lb, and beef was of greater value in a beast than dairy ability. Now, butter-fat is nominally worth Is 6d per lb, and but little interest is taken in beef. For a dairy farmer to be successful to-day he must breed a "specialpurpose'' dairy animal, just as the beef breeder uses only bulls of beef-breeding strains. To increase the butter-fat production in the older dairying districts, purebred Jersey bulls have been used on the herds, and up have gone the butter-fat returns 50 per cent, to 100 per cent. Some of these Grade Jersey cows, under herd-testing conditions, have produced as high as 8001 b butter-fat, and herds average 3501 b to 4001 b fat. A great and profitable time is in store for all good Pedigree Jersey Breeders. The demand is an ever-increasing one. If you are a dairy farmer you must, in self-protection, milk Jerseys. Why not go in for a small herd of purebreds to assist in supplying the demand for bulls to head dairy herds? For full particulars of the breed send for booklet to the Secretary, N.Z. JERSEY CATTLE-BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION, PALMERSTON NORTH.

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