A JERSEY ARISTOCRAT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 30 May 1911, Page 5

A JERSEY ARISTOCRAT.

MO LIKA’S CiIiKISAL. HIS LINE OF DESCENT. The pedigree Jersey bull—Molina’s General—purchased on the Isle of Jersey by Mr Peter Hancock on behalf of himself and Messrs Morant Bayly and D. Hoaly, being now located in Stratford; a few words as to the manner of his breeding will be interesting. That he comes from aristocratic stock of the first water must be admitted, when he was sired by the “King of the Jersey Islands” —Noble of Oaklands. When Mr Hancock reached Jersey and made ris desire known, the acknowledged Lest judge of Jersey stock in the world (Mr J. A. Pecrea) accompanied him in his quest. It is worthy of men cion that Mr Hancock had the pick of Noble of Oaklands’ progeny, and was strongly advis.cd liy Mr Pecroe to take Molina’s General, as being by far and away the best young bull to be purchased on the island. With Noble of Oaklands as sire, and Molina as dam, the imported bull’s line of descent is undoubted, for among the dam’s many excellent performances on the island, one in particular may bo mentioned as showing her butter-fat producing qualities. In a butter-fat competition in May,. 1905, her record was 211) 7oz butter after having been 185 days in milk. Indeed, Molina’s record is considered by many to be quite on a par with Lady Viola’s, the clam of Noble of, Oaklands; but even if she wore only a trifle inferior Molina would still be a cow to be proud of, because it is claimed for Lady Viola that she is the greatest cow living or dead. Her champions state that no cow of any breed, with soch ,an individual record as she achi n od, has ever produced stock to make such butter tests and win so persistently in the show-ring, or pr agony to sell for such high figures as has Lady Viola. She won first aver Jersey, 1901; certificate of merit in public butter test, May, 1901—21 b ,l2oz butter, 50 days in milk; first over Jersey and winner of Theatre Champion Crip, "May, 1905; first prize, sweepstake and champion, St. Saviour— Gronville Shows, 1905; first over England wherever exhibited, 1900; first prize, Royal Counties’ Show, Cardiff, 1907; first prize, Royal Show, Lincoln, 1907; first prize Tunbridge Wells Show 1907; first prize, Tring Park Show, 1907; first prize, Tring Show, for tested cow (after being on show circuit for eight weeks), 1907; champion, Tring Show, 1907; first over England - wherever exhibited, 1907 and 1908. Such is the record of Noble of Oaklands dam. And what of Molina’s General’s sire? Noble of Oaklands was the winner of first prize at St. Saviour’s Show, 1910: first over Jersey, 1910, for bull and progeny; “The King,” with his sons, won all first prizes at the Island of Jersey bull show, April. 1910. Ninety first prizes and championships stand to the credit of Noble of Oaklands and his progeny within the past throe years. Lady Viola is also the dam of such prize-winners as Miss Viola, Willoh’s Rosy, Poppy Viola (with a test .of 11b 15oz after being 159 days in milk, at the age of only thirty months, 1 and a test of 21b 9oz in 24 hours), Viola’s Golden Jolly (sold for 12,000 dollars), and a bull sired by Blue Lad, for which an offer 11,500 dollars was refused. Molina’s General has the most aristocratic blood —both on the sire and dam’s side—in his veins, and there is little doubt but that his introduction into the district will be of immense importance in the direction of the permantently building up of dairy herds. Molina's General is now at Mr J. D. Healy’s Glenthawn Jersey")'stud, *• Optifulke 1 Road, and those who have seen him whose opinions ' are worth having admit that notwithstanding that the bull is still suffering from the effects of a long sea-voyage and detention on Soames Island, that he is the most promising animal they have ever seen.