EVERY COW
NEED FOR TESTING
Considerable interesting information was received! by loeal farmer:-; . at the Dairy Board's Ward Conference held at Whakatane last "Week. •One farmer present said that a number of farmers w*v-Hk like ' i<Tsit tUeir i. .after year, as fresh heito£Sifcame inT but the testing associration insisted that every the herd must :be' tested', andi'Tie could not see anv reason for testing the old cows .ill time when after two or three ryears under test one hails already a .fair idea of their production ability. In reply, Mr Hume stated that the testing fees for a herd of i»0 •cows amounted to. about £12 or £13. Most of this was paid out. in, wages and: transport for the testing officer. ■So that the cost of testing 15 cows Would be the same. The disease -statistics and average but 'terifat productions of farms and d.:s, tricts would be useless as indicators 5i "if fchey did not include all ol Lhc in the herd, j
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, 2 May 1941, Page 5
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165EVERY COW Bay of Plenty Beacon, 2 May 1941, Page 5
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