TESTING IN KUKU.
A summary of llie season's results ( of ilie Kuku Testing Association are ( to hand. This shows that 17 herds were tested, comprising 317 cows. The total production in buttenat was •57.-Jai.7ilb. lor td.574 days' milk. The | average cow gav*6 a. r<2linn Ol 275.251 b fat in 277 days, the : liighesi herd averaging 334 561 b fat in : 27,7 days, and die lowest 112.5111. fat in i 12a days. the best cow produced . 1-Id.7(11 h Icit hi 527 days, and the lowj est s:7 edit. tat in .157 days. The daily • I avt-iage production per cow was* j l.ubvOib iai. tlie percentage increase !in daily production being 9.9 S pel' cent. Jn the previous season, 1920-21, 14 . fields were tested, with a total of 331 j cows. These averaged 22*. 0i1), fat in j 230 days, so' that the present season j allows" an increased average of 471b] ~.r row. Tiie herd average foi this ■ season ha* also hern raised front j !2.uo!b m 531.501!'. Hie highest indi- j. vidua! cow in K'2m-21 l.eat the Ms' | animal during the piesem season with' ' a return of 432 ®!b against 446.761 b.
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Otaki Mail, 22 September 1922, Page 4
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