FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1921, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

SALE OF PEDIGREE JERSEYS. In our advertising columns will be 1 found particulars of the fourth annual ■ sale of 2-year-old pedigree Jersey heifj era to be sold in the Egmont A. and P. showgrounds, Hawera, on the 30th instant, on account of Messrs. A. and J. O’Donnell, the quality of whose pedigree stock is already well known to Jersey breeders throughout the Dominion. This year’s draft is a splendid line—it is doubtful if a better lot will come under the hammer this season—and should find strong favor with They have wintered well, and will enter the ring lin splendid condition. It may be mentioned that “Goneril,” purchased at last year’s sale by Mr. C. G. Gibbons, of [ Ngaere, is the leading two-year-old under test this season; up to the middle !of July she has returned 469.031b5. of butter-fat—-244.61b5 % is required to quali--1 fy for record—and it is expected that ; she will easily do 5001bs. fat before the • end of her test. A sister of “Goneril” ■ is to be sold at this year’s sale, as well I as several others closely related to “SulI tan’s Daisy,” the champion Jersey cow I of the Empire. I Messrs. R. P> Morrisey and Co. have ; been favored with the sale, from whom ! the catalogue and full particuars may ! be obtained.