HOLSTEIN & JERSEY CROSSES

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5157, 14 November 1912, Page 6

HOLSTEIN & JERSEY CROSSES

t A correspondent, writing to Hoard’s Dairyman, asks if there is any foundation for a statement that the Wisconsin Experiment Station had been crossing Holstein bulls on Jersey cows for the past five years, and had found those cows to be very profitable producers, better than either bred pure. In reply to the above the journal in question says:— “The Wisconsin Experiment Stuion, has never crossed liolstei i bulls with Jersey cows, and Professor Humphrey, in writing us regarding this subject, says: ‘Some farmers have conceived the idea that the cross of a Holstein, which produces a large quantity of milk testing 3 or 3J per cent., with a Jersey, which produces milk testing in the neighbourhood of 5 per cent., would produce a cow that will give a large quantity of - milk and a high per centage of fat. The cross between the Holtsein and Jersey is a radical one, and too often the result is an animal that produces a smaller quantity of milk than the common Jersey and a lower per cent, of fat than the Holstein; in other words, an animal which is about as disappointing as one could possibly secure.”’