COW-TESTING
SEMI-OFFICIAL RECORDS
The semi-official testing of purebred dairy cows by tho Dairy Produce Division has been well supported for this, its first season (writes Mr W. M. Singleton in the “ Agricultural Journal "). With tho general extension of association cow-testing among ordinary milking herds tho demand for purebred bulls of good milking strain has become accentuated, and to enable breeders to place authentic records before intending purchasers the obtaining of semi-official yearly records became a necessity. iliVery effort has been made to place those records above suspicion, and breeders have met tho division very heartily in this respect. The HolsteinFriesian and Jersey breeders have adopted the system, and there are now entered in test for semi-official certificate 123 Holsteins and 106 Jerseys. A number have beeu entered and have been withdrawn from competing for certificate, owing to their not meeting tho requirement of having dropped a calf within fifteen months previous to tho commencement of tho tost. For this first season a number of these cows are being tested, and the owners will be given a signed statement of the cows’ production, but no semi-official certificate will be available, neither can their names be included in the list of cows having qualified. In all, over two hundred and fifty cows are in yearly test; their daily weights of milk being recorded by the owners and cheeked by tho officers of the Dairy Produce Division. who also make the monthly fatdeterminations.
The milking herds of the experimental farms arc being submitted to the same cheeking and testing by this division as are other purebred cows under semi-official test. With these the total number of cows under this yearly test will this season exceed three hundred. The figures obtained will be of great benefit to all concerned. and especially to the dairy farmer seeking to purchase a purebred bull with a performance pedigree. It
will also benefit the breeders, for a dairyman does not object to paying more for an animal backed by a good authentic yearly butter-fat record.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 2
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337COW-TESTING New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 2
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