HERD IMPROVEMENT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3807, 11 September 1936, Page 7

HERD IMPROVEMENT

TE AWAMUTU JERSEY CLUB’S SALE. SOME HIGHLY-BRED YOUNG BULLS. With stabilised prices for dairy produce, many farmers are looking about for ways and means of increasing production, without its involving a greater amount of work or expenditure on grass-land improvement, and they have decided that judicious and systematic breeding is the surest and most profitable. The wise farmer realises that a good sire is, as the saying goes, “ half the herd,” and he carefully compares breeding lines to ensure that he is able to purchase a young bull of undoubted prepotency in transmitting the desirable qualifications of butter-fat, constitution, and tractability. The forthcoming annual pedigree bull sale of Te Awamutu Jersey Cattle Club, to be held at the municipal sale yards on Wednesday, 23rd inst., affords fine opportunities for securing, at moderate cost, bulls that are as attractively bred as many offered at larger sales under conditions more calculated to produce free bidding for possession. There are quite a number of instances of better bulls being bought for less money at Te Awamutu sales, and the coming sale should be no different in this respect. The offering this year again exceeds one hundred, and includes entries from practically all the wellknown breeders of this district. Mr J. G. Holmes has the largest number, totalling sixteen, and Mr J. Mclvor follows with thirteen; Mrs M. E. Shaw offers ten, and Mr Chhajja Singh has seven catalogued; Messrs H. E. Focke and F. J. B. Ryburn have six each. Other breeders represented with one or more animals include Messrs H. Allen, G. S. Clarke, H. R. Clarke, A. J. Johnson, E. R. Johnson, Gordon Johnson. R. B. Kinnon, H. Meadway, Colin McDonald, E. Orr, R. A. Paddon, D. and J. S. Pattison, H. de L. Peake, T. A. Rushbrooke, J. Shaw, W. Struthers and F. H. Terry. There will be a competition under show-ring conditions prior to the sale, prizes being offered for the best yearling bull and the best two-year-old bull. The catalogue issued by the Club gives particulars of the bulls to be offered, and it is pointed out that the entries have been classified in two sections. Class A contains those bulls having two or more of the three nearest dams with butter-fat records; all the other bulls are catalogued in class B. Class A bulls will be sold first at the sale, which commences immediately after the judging has been completed. The animals placed first, second, and third by the judges w’ill be offered specially at 1.30 p.m.