SELECTION OF HERDS.
MORE ATTENTION TO TESTING. Arrangements have been mado by the New Zealand Dairy Association, Auckland, that much more attention shall lie given to herd-testing this : season. It is now agreed, said the managing director of the Association (Mr. Wesley Spragg) when discussing this subject, that milkproducers require to exercise more, care in the selection of their herds and in culling out unprofitable cattle. When the business was new and cows were not in largo supply and all were wanted, and especially when tho means of knowing tho butter-fat production of cows was by imperfect methods, practically any kind of cow had "to be kept. In established districts'the feeding and handling of cattle that did not pay their way was mow needless and it' was wasteful,in the extreme.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1229, 11 September 1911, Page 8
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130SELECTION OF HERDS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1229, 11 September 1911, Page 8
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