A WORLD RECORD
WAIKATO’S BEST COWS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) TE AIIOHA, July 21. A Dominion and, as far as is known, a world lecord in dairy production by the Ngarua group of the New Zealand Herd Testing Association was celebrated to-day when a large gathering of dairy farmers and others from all parts of the Waikato took place at Ngarua. For two years Ngarua ha<s beaten every group in the New Zealand Co-op. Herd Testing Association, and for the 1928-29 season Ngarua with 984 cows put u,o the average of 3041 b of butterfat a cow and 1701 b of butter-fat per acre. This record was beaten last season when with 1:113 cows Ngarua produced an average of 3181 b of but-ter-fat a cow in 281 days and an average of 1861 b butter-fat an acre, again leading every other group, ana Manawatu group was runnel-up for last season with 311.111 b of butterfat a cow for 1251 cows in 261 days, 12 days less than the time covered by the Ngarua group. The best lierd in the Ngarua group was that of Mr J. F. James which produced an average of 379.61 b butterfat froni 86 cows in 292 days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1930, Page 2
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