YIELD-TESTING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 10

YIELD-TESTING.

;SLOW^Tf';;POLICT,' ■ y'K '■"'./ The /enthusiasm of' Dannevirke. folk in/ the /?: yield-testing .question -has previously /been, 'ij.-Vmentioned in.this column.:. It is only, natural ~ •■'■ that' a: place' \vith' a name and } many S/'Bettlers of' Danish birth, should; show an ad- '■ ■■. vanceu , ;opinion 'on a practice that. , htis done .- much.to improve the datryteids of Denmark. , '.■■•'■: A step , .; , .forward 'was taken lately;..when the ':-': secretary:of the;Dannevirke-Chamber of Com-i.'-.merceflrote-tp the .Department, of..Agriculture ■■„ asking, that an officer,'of. the-dairying division- ' ■■ might: be sent to farmers ';.:-on .the :yield-testing question;. ; S;.Mr. Singleton '■'has now replied on the dairy 'com!:i;:missioner to the'foUowing: effect,./ The:letter ■, ; -.:'w»ll '.doubtless be of .interest', tp fanners in other districts/who'aredesirbusof.beginning the test';;:r ingj—r' : ;')■/"': ■ ; -'' ">v-, ; ' '".-- :, -/":V' : -'';-:/■-: ; .;.-:-. ,■ -;° :.'■:,.l "I -have to acknowledge your favour, and ''■while: we-would esteem'it a , privilege-to ad- '. -.-dress the. dairy farmers' of your district on the ; : ' Tery important:,'qnestiPn.' of .cow-testing, our' ; . is ; not, as yet. , sufficiently far. ad- •:': vanced .to warrant onr doing so. ■ The Wai--■^.'rarapa-. Association.has been started,, primarily .. to furnish ; a start'.'which should pave the way N/for. further/ extension, on as good, and 1 possibly ,/ better, lines." '.^Wβ: desire. to get this informabefore going further , afield, and probably. .:-.-' after v the',close.' of. the-present/season, 'and : 'prior 'to.: the ; begluning "■ of the 'one following, ! .'• wemaybeinaposition to assist in the spread .' : : of this movement", by more direct .means ,thaji ':■■'': is. the'oase at' present.: The, , inoyemeint , bids .'■' '".fair tpibermost■ successfnl, and'W'shall.look ..."■'.fprwarditd .'seeing an .association. formed, in '; ,i your district' next seaspn. . ; .. -:' ... ■.'.'; :,::■:- "We extend i-'our. sinoere thanks' to your -.■;•-(Chamber,-of Commerce fdr their enterprise and, ~';' sympathy /shown" towards this", movement, 'and ',' -trust that .in. the ,, nbthfar!-distant,'future .we •'/'"'may be -,in r a position.'toS.'diScuss this'-.matter /-with'its members and.thedairy.farmers of the !-.■' irarrounding' district.—Yours faithfully, , ; ■ : M. SINGLETON,'/ ';.'/;/:";"■.',■'-.: ; i "For dairy commissioner."