YIELD TESTING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 8

YIELD TESTING.

ONE or THE DirriCULTIES :!• "It is ■ easy : enough," said nil/ i Eketahuna. ."dairyifarmer; "to ascertain '.your best 1 milkers by: testing; the cows ofa herd;, but :to,follow, it i tip "is our.' handicap.' 'Most ■: 6f us/aro on, smaU-holdingsV': and ,to 'mako ends meet, it' is necessary to milk na' inaiiy cbws as the'land' Yfillcarryj; tfhd /consequently- ttieto: iS ; rip • room for growing stock. .. In my; own case I had fourteto ::y6ung;.lioiferSi at'-'ithe: beginnings.of last.seasou,'- jjoti by; a ''.purebred" ball • from. my. best cows,' .bat '/k'ha'd to-givo: sdveri'.'of them-for the 1 ; grazing "of '"'tho ; remainder:; for; ono 'year. Possibly grazing' will not, be':obtainable this season, and' there will bo nci 'alternative but to seUHhe lot. Those, ara.,tbe'';littlo difficulties which . beset; the'/ struggling., dairymen, and althbiigh' intentions; at herd advancement may bo' good,', oirr' pockets are. tho. impediment.'' 1 'v"! This, view?of- the; case,'. no doubt,'/'states the position of ;many I there iis plenty "of room : for testing to do : good even ' for . these.' Oh the ' principle that ..knowledge, is • power,', it' is important >„ to' know tho order ' of lvalue ' ,of : . the V. members ' of the herd, rand'possibly, it may :. ; be : fouhtl /.that several of .the.herd are.really hot.-worth; what they cost',to maintain.: The yield-testing move; ment is being disenssed-with'/great interest:in many :dairying ' districts, ' and'even', those; farmers' 1 who,do .hot. actually, take part. mayin 'time share; the' benefits, because' of., tho general jjplifting'.of all tho dajry'stockj.of.-the.country.