DAIRY SIRE SURVEY
■Press „ Assoclatioij.)
Disappointing .Response
(By Telegrapb 7
. WHANGAREI, Last Night, Iri referrihg to' fhe'Dairy Board's sire survey, Mr T. C. Brash, secretary, told the ward conference at Whangarei today that the-board- was disappointed.atthe paucity of -applications for sire sur-; vey^ from individual fa'rmers." In- other countries the work had been taken up "wholeheartedly." : Th'br'e ,'seemed to -be 110 nfnv.emeht, '-in. thei Dominion for the inipi^ovement. of the [position of herds; he stated,- addiitg that the O.O.R. tests ' were praetically usel.ess- from the view-' point.of improying production. It hadL to be admitted that the industry was most; likely -to secnre help ' from pure- ■ bred sires,' • but . only.- if breeders put their- backs into Ihe' job and gave the industry cattle to improv'e its' lierds.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 6
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126DAIRY SIRE SURVEY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 6
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