. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 7, 1901] ®he gh^eefrer \xxxb gtpcvt&man 11 THE FARM. JERSEY CATTLE. Imported Flying Fox--His Sire and Dam. I see that you mention the importation of the Jersey bull Flying Fox in your paper of November 23, 1901, page 11. The great appreciation shown at T. S. Cooper's sale of imported Jersey cattle in May, 1902, for the get of the Island cham- pion bull, Flying Fox, P-2792-HC, added to the favor they command on the Island of Jersey and in England, indicates that the famous line of blood emanating from the black cow Sultanne P-7-HC, which found its f
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 7, 1901] ®he gh^eefrer \xxxb gtpcvt&man 11 THE FARM. JERSEY CATTLE. Imported Flying Fox--His Sire and Dam. I see that you mention the importation of the Jersey bull Flying Fox in your paper of November 23, 1901, page 11. The great appreciation shown at T. S. Cooper's sale of imported Jersey cattle in May, 1902, for the get of the Island cham- pion bull, Flying Fox, P-2792-HC, added to the favor they command on the Island of Jersey and in England, indicates that the famous line of blood emanating from the black cow Sultanne P-7-HC, which found its first popular re-individu- alization in the bull Golden Lad, now dead, has lodged in Flying Fox as the greatest of its many representatives. In England there was a Btrong disposi- tion to award to Golden Fern's Lad (the sire of Flying Fox) the mantle of Golden Lad. This preference never obtained a firm foothold in America, though Fern's daughter Golden Sultana made a sensa- tion by bringing the top price in the Cooper sale of 1900, in which many daughters of Golden Lad competed. Eng- land had taken nearly all of the best of Fern's daughters before Mr. Cooper re- sumed his importations and, with this one exception, he could not rind the kind he wanted. Judging by the sale of 1901, American breeders have decided by com- mon consent that Flying Fox outranks his sire, Golden Fern's Lad, and is to succeed Golden Lad as the premier blood source. Golden Fern's Lad, the sire of Flying Fox, ranked as high in public appreciation on the Island as ever Golden Lad did and when he went to England he could have remained on the Island and have had full patronage at five times the regulation fee fixed by the Royal Society for bulls that participate in its prizes. His son Flying Fox was compelled last spring, in order to suppress patronage to within rational limits, to forfeit his prize winnings pay his fines and raise his service fee to five times the stipulated amount. Forcing this issue was p
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