HERD TESTING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 15

HERD TESTING

Gisborne Returns For Past Season HIGHEST YIELb 430LBS. The highest herd in the Poverty Eay Group Herd Testxng Assoeiation during tlie Season just closed averaged 4301b. of butterfat over a testing peNod Which averhged 305 dayS. This WaS the pferformanee of.Messrs. Carroli and Cooper's herd &t Patutahi coniprisiilg 26 COws, while Mf. E. J. Sherwood 's herd, Manutuke, averaged 3691b. in 300 days. Thitty hefd« averaged ov6r 30oib. of butterfat) and tlie highest cow in theassoeiation, Mrs. M. Pendreigh's seVOnyear Jemey, W&s Ofedited with 6941b. in 264 dayS, The highest group was tho' Ngatapa-Patutahi %roup with 19 herds and a total of 691 cows and an average of 2801b. over 259 days. - The above figures are eontained in the annual summaiy of returns prepar-_ ed by the Secretary, Mr. M. Whitham, who states that 6646 eows were testca' for periods Of 100 days or more, this numoer exeeeding the previous season V total by over HOO eows. This year fOi' the fifSt time milkrecord'ing was dOUe in addition to test-' ing for butterfat production) Mr. Whic-' ham added, and the publieation of thciinal figures thus Should b6 of- grCater interest to individual members.for thc pui'pose of comparison. He Suggested: that the newsphper eutting SliOuld be kept by mombers of the assoeiation for futufe reference. Ayerages acoording to ages Were given this year in addition to the assoeiation summgxy.