NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 683, 7 December 1909, Page 10

NEWS AND NOTES.

,H r r * "BY THEIR FRUITS." ■v I :f ' DALEFIELD COWS ON TRIAL- NOVEMBER RESULTS. : fr n Tho favours aro, going round very impartially among the competitors in tho Dolofield Dairy larmcrs' yiold-testing scheme. Tho November figures show furthci changes in tho - ""j. ownership of i the best herds. While it is generally belied that tho proprietorship ot some of tho various "secret numbers" by which tho competing farmers aro designated m tho „ f official reports havo leaked out in tho Carterton district, the owneis still lemain, for purp( ~ poses of publicity, incognito. In the first month's report (September) "No 21" owned tho .- J J" C3t h,!r(l ' antl " No> 8 " possessed tho best individual cow; but in the "-econd month tho , % .honoured numbers wero Nos. 20 and 12. This month tho premier places aio occupied by ' f , ! Nos. 2(1 and 7. Tho 'Novombcr figures are given below ;- ' Thn average yield per cow is Milk, 11001b« ; test 3.58 per cent , fat 3<Mtlbs. Tho \J, svors5 vor sl so „ I ?. ,a,l S h . tho s&me a* for October For October with 31 ,days, tho average cow pro- '* ' J"?, b l fat ' wwrcas in thirty days in November, sho prodnccd 39411b5. The best icra for November averaged 13091bs milk, testing 3C4 per cent, and yfclding 47 701bs. // r - J i, per o C S. w " Tn °. Bve '' a ße cow of tho herd with the lowest yield produced lOffilbs milk, • ,r testing 3iSo per cent, and yielding 35 Ollbs fat The cow giving tho largest yield as * ' eimvk * i riu month ' Produced 20931bs milk, testing 3 3 per cent, and y]elding ' , i ■ M 07lbs. fat Tho lowest yield dunm; the month was from a cow producing 4201b5. milk. | I testing 3 6 per cent, and yielding lj 121bs fat , f | YIELDS OVLOULATED FOR ONE MONTH (NOVEMBER).

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