THE HOME OF BUTTER-FAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 12

THE HOME OF BUTTER-FAT.

BRIDGE VIEW’S CHOICE OFFERING. Production combined with quality has always been the keynote that has set the tune for the progressive Jersey breeder, and Mr. A. L. Hooper, of the Bridge View Stud, Brixton, has made that his motto over long years of breeding. The result is that his anual offerings have been keenly sought over the last twelve years, and have given, satisfaction wherever they have been taken. This is not surprising when it is considered that Bridge View is the home of that great butter-fat bull Goodwood Rupert, a son of the imported Clarion. Goodwood Rupert is a champion gold medallist bull, having eleven C.O.R. daughters. Five of them put up the great record of over 6221 b. fat, the highest being Bridge View Jersey Queen, 733.941 b fat,- and Bridge View Tulip, 6401 b fat as a junior two-year-old and 7461 b fat as a senior two-year-old. Three of them as two-year-olds averaged 6621 b, a Dominion record. Mr. Hooper has been consistently testing, and has about 70 C.O.R. records, the average production being over 5001 b of fat. The Bridge View offering this year is again a very select one, comprising a young cow and a two-year-old bull to be submitted at the National sale on Mop-, day, and seven yearling heifers and a yearling bull at the combined Jersey sale at Mr. Truby King’s property on Thursday. , ' • The five-year-old Bridge View Monica, one of the two selected for the National sale, is a sweet little cow that should be hard, to fault in the show ring. She is a daughter of Goodwood Rupert, whilst her dam combines the blood of K.C.B; and Bilberry 111. She has C.O.R. records of 489.131 b fat at two years, and 598.701 b fat at six years. • She has a daughter with a C.O.R. record of 5381 b of fat, and this daughter Monica, who should certainly be put under test. She is in calf to Bridge View Golden Laddie, a son of Goodwood Rupert from a daughter of Bright Sultan (imp.). The two-year-old bull Bridge View Ruler should prove a great sire as he has a remarkable pedigree. On the sire’s side he is a grandson of Gdcdwood Rupert, also combining the blood . Xenia’s Oxford Lad (imp.) and Viola’s Golden Laddie (imp.). On the dam’s side he goes back to the champion butter-fat bull Holly Bank Squire, who has 20 C.O.R. daughters. - With one exception the heifers to be submitted at the combined sale on Thursday are by that good bull Bridge View Promise, who has three daughters under test this season. He is by the champion herd sire Goodwood Rupert, while his dam is Bridge View Lady Viola, a daughter of tlie imported Bright Sultan—Viola’s Frisky. Lady Viola is the dam of two C.O.R. daughters—Bridge View All Gold, 759.701 b fat, and Bridge View Tulip, 640 lb fat as a junior two-year-old and 746 lb fat as a senior two-year-old. The seventh heifer, Bridge View Nemesia, has the Goodwood Rupert blood on the dam’s side, while the sire is a son of the imported Brampton Dreaming Sam, out of Hecate, whose is a double grandson of the famed Majesty’s Eileen. The yearling bull is bred on lines to make a herd sire who should improve the production of any herd. He is a son of the imported Vagabond of Oaklands, out of Bridge View Content, whose grand-dam was the imported Susy Gamboge. She also combines the blood of Sultan’s Daisy.