STATE DAIRY HERDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 8

STATE DAIRY HERDS.

£ -' AYRSHIRES ADVOCATED. t 1 I (By Telegraph-Special Reporter) j S"* Dannevlrke.i February. 8. i Speakingat tho luncheon nt'tho Dannovlrko Show to-day, Mr. J. Dunlop, tho visiting member'of tho Scotch Coriiniisnon, said ho ( had tho conclusion 4hat New Zealand should go in moro for Ayrshire cattle. Tho Government had established hords of Jerseys and of Holfcteinr, but seemed to ha\o neglected Ayr- ; v ehires , In Scotland about nineteen- > twentieths of tho dairy cattlo'wero Ayrshires. 'Thero the qualities of tho breed '. t had tbeon proved, and as New Zealand was "so similar to Scotland thev should bo given a trial hero, 110 was firmly of the- opinion that, as a good all-round I cow,"producing a fair quantity of good F > , quality milk, the Ayrshire could not bo I lieaten Tho Yankees had recognised I that, and Ayrshires 'wero booming in 5 America In Philadelphia and in New i York the medical faculty especially I ; stipulated that none but Ayrshires' milk L ihould b« used for their patients 'r f Speaking subsequently, the Eon.» T i < Mackenzie said that tfhat was wanted 1 was encouragement of tho good strains f of milking cattle. It was true that the) f tad not devoted Muuch. attention to the I Ayrshires jet, bnt at the time the I Estimates were boing mads thero was a j demand for-Jerseys" and Holstcins,: and [ eo thom brecd<i wero comnienced v,ith j However, Mr J. the maaag«T [oo r tb6 Stale farm at Levin, bad recently f hocn.-fo.Australia and>had lookbd out.for t Ayrshires -They wero going to get «Omc, \ u Dunlop's guidance would bf I .Taluable. •