AN INTERESTING DEAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 68, 13 December 1917, Page 8

AN INTERESTING DEAL

; . RED POLLS FOR FRIESIANS . ; GOVERNMENT COWS FOR ' VICTORIA 1 _Dr. Cameron, the DirectX of tho Victorian Department of Agriculture, •is at present in Wellington. Ho has ■ visited New Zealand in connection with - a deal that will bo of great interest to tho dairying community. The Victorian Stat© Farm at Werribee has a Bed Poll dairy herd 'which Dr. Cam'croii has heen building up during the last ten or twolve years. This herd, which has been sired by imported „ bulls, has reached a high standard of '■excellence., and calves from'the herd are in great demand among the Victorian- farmers. One of the cows, un- : tier tho Government test, produced 8861b. of butter-fat, equivalent to ..10081b. of commercial butter, in. a year. ~Dr. Cameron has arranged to exchansi ..seventeen animals from this herd for • representatives, of the Now Zealand ■ Government's herd of Friesians. ? The suggestion that an exchange ' .should be made came originally from ."New. Zealand's Minister of Agriculture, .the Hon., W. D; S. Mac Donald, who ..inspected tho Werribee farm during his ■ visit to Australia last May. The Fries•■ians are coming from the Central De•velopment Farm at Weraroa, and the "condition of the deal is that they must ']b® equal in milking quality to tile Red . Polls supplied by the Victorian Depart- . menfc. Dr. Cameron iuspected the We..raroa heird a few days ago, and he ..expressed himself very pleased with ■ the cows he has selected. Mr. Mac- ■ Donald offered originally to buy a bull ■ and half a dozen heifers from the Red " Poll herf, but that was considered im- " possible owing to the price claim possessed by the Victorian farmers; who i have filed their applications for calves ..far in advance. The exchange overcame tho difficulty, aiid it is likely to be mutually heueficial. Hie Red Polls • will go to one of the New Zealand ' State farms. ,