COW-TESTING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 593, 23 August 1909, Page 10

COW-TESTING.

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT'S-, ' 1 -■•■ ■ .■ ■ PLANS. '■ ..,'.•■'. J Our Carterton./correspondent'telegraphed o on. Saturday :—ln; tho Council Chambers this t afternoon, Messrs! Cuddie and • Singleton, of. s the Department of! Agriculture,, addressed a t meeting of farmers on the a subject of cow-testing. • i Mr.. Cuddle referred, to tho good. season^ just .past, and said it spoke well for the" ° solidity of the dairying industry. Last year, £ for the first time on record, more $heese"Vas <j sent away than butter, but tho monetary, a value; of the butter exported was ahead of n the oboese. The latter, however, .',. would o soon catch up. High prices could not con- c tinue always, but he- hopcti, that a lean year [: was a long way off; farmers >should con- V; sider -the matter, and look ahead and make ?' prorisioh. To enable farmers to do so, they [j wero present that day to pkco a proposal y before them, to enable them to find out the h' individual worth of each cow in butter-fat ■ ti and" profit. Taking the whole of the herds h of New Zealand, there was a large proportion s of bad cows, and the timo was ripe to replace b them with good stock, and. this could „ only bo done by scales and testing. ;He referred to the success of 'the method, F uid at.tho conclusion of his'remarks a largo li number.present handed : in thoir names for al the testing of their herds to be carried out A by the Agricultural Department. ai —— ■. P 1