EARLY CALVING AND HIGH HERD YIELDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 24 (Supplement)

EARLY CALVING AND HIGH HERD YIELDS

(1) Early calving. Is essential to high herd production under the New ZeaJland system of daixying. (2) Early calving cows must be adequately provided with milkproducing feed in the early spring. (3) The ordinary farm cannot adequately replace spring grass shortage by roots, ensilage or hay. either alone or in combination. (4) A really adequate supply oi vlgorously-growing young grass ln the early spring, consumed as such, would make early calving safe and effective throughout New Zealand Herd-testing figures are snowfiq the trend to eariier calving. Farm ers are finding it a matter of ex treme importance to get as much production from their herds as pos sible before the dry summer spells set ln. The application of nltrogenous fertilisers has proved to be ex tremely valuable in assisting farmers to make early calving safe. It is -of little use bringtng cows in early unless they are adequately fed, and nothing produces milk like young grass. It has an effect on milk stimulation which has nevei been adequately explained. — Mr. A. H. Cockayne, Director-General of Agriculture

the' dairy industry, and exporting cQuntries must naturally be affected in proportion .to the additional. production Great Britain's internal policy will create. Expansion, therefore, must find another direction in which to operate. It is' now plain that the world ' can do with all the wool that ,■ is . produced. New CQuntries want it, and, in addition, population in the older countries is growing more rapidly than is the world production of the staple to keep paea with it. Another point is that there is no prospect of the many countries that require wool imposing a restriction such as Britain may have to do in the case of some of the important foodstuffs. It would seem, therefore, that wool is the main product . of which more could be produced without ' exceeding the general requirements. Values may fluctuate, and experience has shown how violently those fluetuations'may be. As in the past, there may be years when wool will be marketed at an unpayable price, but in the long run'tho wool will be wanted. The complete absorption of the carried-over "Australian wool from the war period shows the elasticity of the consuming demand At the moment it would be difScult to conceive a set of conditions whieb would create another such mountainous surplus. Wool, therefore, appears as if it will be an increasing element in the value of the country 's exports.