CATTLE FROM JERSEY ISLAND.

Wairarapa Age, 5 November 1930, Page 7

CATTLE FROM JERSEY ISLAND.

MANY NOTABLE PRIZEWINNER®

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The most important, and easily the most valuable consignment of cattle ever to reach the Dominion was recently landed at Auckland and is now in quarantine at Motuihi Island. The consignment when it left Jersey Island comprised fifteen head—six bulls and nine females. The quality of these cat tie is indicated by the fact that prior to shipment they had won no less than lofty prizes. The oattle hnv« CO mo to New Zealand via the United States whore they wore domiciled for six mentis. Altar leaving Jersey Island; the number increased to 21 head, as the fomuln, wkan ahippod wo.o in oolf to the leading sires on the Island. The animals _mclude the bull Roseland FlbiieeF, will fill wuu a reserve chainpionship as a yearling. A notable young MW, Mucnland Oowslip’= ©bjee” five, has won innumerable prizes and eups en the Island and last year met with extraordinary success, being reserve over the Island at the Royal Show. The oldest bull in the shipment X’-p- Priase Jseil thorn ifion) has had a great prize-winning career and was reserve over Jersey Island in October last. Coronation bid? the seeond oldest bull in the consignment is one of the deepest bodied Jersey bulls for his age that has yet been seen in ■the Dominion. Brampton Baronet is a representative of ens of ths best butterfat fftmilioß m tke IM, while StayVille’s Sul ton’s Bonn ropreaenta one o £ the very old and outstanding families on the Island. Heading the collection of females is the five-year-old cow Young You’ll Do Countess 2nd. In addition to numerous prizes, she won the Moridalc Cup in 1928 for the best cow at thy Royal Show bred by the exhibitor. Another very heavy milker is the three-year-old Beauty’s Star Baby. In the shipment there is-’morn than one representative of the same strain, and the most interesting part of the consignment is the three females from the Sybil family. The Sybil family is the strain that produced Sybil's Gamboge, which sold at auction in the United States for £13,000, and is one of the most famous bulls of all time.