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NO HAND-STRIPPING OF COWS FARMERS' EXPERIENCE It has been suggested that the shortage of dairy farm labour will compel some farmers to abandon hand-stripping of cows, and that this will mean a decline in buttcrfat production, seeing that the last milk a cow gives is the richest. ! A Northern Wairoa farmer with a fairly large herd did not have his' output affected last season, however, when he found it impossible to continue handstripping. About ten per cent, of the cows, he said, held back their milk towards the end of a milking, but the thought that they gave more at the subsequent one. At all events, his butterfat returns Ave re. about the same.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 86, 3 August 1942, Page 2
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117RETURNS THE SAME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 86, 3 August 1942, Page 2
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