LITTLE BUSH JERSEYS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18848, 28 October 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

LITTLE BUSH JERSEYS

PROVEN SIRE PURCHASED

With a view to improving the already high standard of the Little Push Jersey herd, Mr. J. J. Springgay, Waiohika, has purchased a. well-known sire which has proved liimselt by winning .1.1 championships and siring Koval Show champions with great butterfat records. The Little Bush herd was founded 10 years ago. when Mr. Springgay secured live cows from Mr. C. Meulie, Tarehi, Stratford, and a bull, Clare’s Choice, bred by Mr. Parker, or Hairini, Waikato. Breeding from this stock gave very good results, and it .was not long before Little Bush exhibits were featured in the Gisborne Show prize lists, including nearly 20 first prizes and two reserve championships, the latter being secured with Ferndalo Briar’s Lady as a 4-year-old, and Fern dale Lady Bird as a 1-year-old. Cows of his breeding are high producers. Fern dale Briar’s Lady gave 4571 b. fat C.0.R., as a 3-year-old, and will be one. of the main breeding cows to bo mated with Mr. Springgay’s latest bull. Satisfied with results achieved to date but desiring a more distinctive type, Air. Springgay set out to secure tho best possible blood which had already proved itself. Accordingly, he bought the 40-year-old bull Oaklands Clarion at Mr. E. Griffiths’ dispersal sale at New Plymouth last May. Though bred in New Zealand, his parents were imported from, Jersey Island, where they had been Show winners, by Air. Griffiths and sold at his .1925 sale, Clarion to Sir Truby King and Sybil’s Gypsy to Air. E. W. Cornwall for 510gns. Sybil’s Gypsy was in calf to Clarion, and dropped Oakland’s Clarion in August of that year. Mr. Cornwall used Oaklands Clarion lightly. As a 3-year-old, ho was purchased by Air. Nicholas Aloore, Tapanui, Otago, for whom he won 11 championships. At thy last Royal Show held in Invercargill, lie earned great fame because both the male and female championships, and the female reserve championships, went to his son and daughters, his progeny also winning eight first prizes at the same Show. Oakland’s Clarion is a great grandson of Fern’s Oxford Noble on the sire side and of Sybil’s Gamboge on the dam’s side. Gisborne Jersey breeders have taken much interest in the acquisition of such a fine bull for this district, and a number of local dairy farmers are taking advantage of his presence for breeding purposes. Oaklands Clarion lias improved wonderfully in the more congenial Poverty Bay climate, and promises to do particularly well in his new home.