HERD TESTING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 October 1939, Page 5

HERD TESTING

FIGURES FOR THE DISTRICT BEST RECORD TO GISBORN*E? Nearly 20,000 cows were tested by the Bay of Plenty and East Coast Herd Improvement Association during the period ended October 4. There are 22 groups under the association's control the district extending from Katikati to Wairoa. There are four groups in the Gisborne district, two on the Coast and one in Wairoa, the total number of cows south of Opotiki being nearly 3000. The association's average butterfat production for the period from 19,,831 cows was 291b of butterfat with a 4.2 test. Only one of the Gisborne groups fell below this aver age, while the Manutuku group reached 371b. One of the Coast and the only Wairoa groups were hardly up to the average.

The Gisborne district had the hon our of having the highest herd in the association, this herd, in the Waipaoa group, averaging 021b..

although only four cows were tested. However, the same group had the next best figure, a herd with 21 cows tested averaging 491b of fat per cow, a figure which equalled the performance of a Whakatane herd of 35. The group averages are tabulated

below:—

Cows Milk Test Fat No. Lbs Lbs Katikati North 1088 720 4.2 30.00 Katikati South 970 679 4.4 30.00 Tauranga A. 874 679 4.2 27.00 Te Puke 1924 664 3.9 26.00 Ohinepanea 1500 681 4.2 29.00 Galatea 264 514 4.1 21.00 Thornton 1161 799 4.2 34.00 Otakiri 606 630 4.0 25.00 Edgecumbe 1300 762 4.3 31.00 Awakeri 1683 724 4.3 31.00 Whakatane 809 684 4.5 31.00 Waimana 1525 610 4.1 25.00 Opotiki West 1336 566 4.4 26.00 Opotiki East 1043 594 4.4 26.00 Waipaoa 292 747 4.4 33.00 Tolaga Bay 732 692 4.2 20.00 Patutahi 495 747 4.4 33.00 Te Karaka 498 603 4.3 26.00 Manutuke 329 830 4.4 37.00 Wairoa 443 611 4.3 26.00 Waiapu 208 501 4.5 23.00