HERD TESTING.

Otaki Mail, 20 August 1923, Page 2

HERD TESTING.

! AUrFORT SOLICITED FOR NEW ASSOCIATION. j MR. P. O’DWYER'S ADVOCACY. ; Reference was made by Mr. O’Dwycr to the iiewlv-furincil HcjilJ’cming Association at a meeting of Hi.* lrSicniici.nl branch of vbe Farmer-’ L ‘uou, aim, a- u result, a mihily -j)iri led discussion occurred. Mr. • I’lAvvcr said the question of setting he herd testing in action on a Ann basis was now proving a big que o ion, and the Marlborough Shorthorn A---ociatA-a, which was the prime mover, •'as not a suilicically strong body to | push it iOfward uccc-.-l u!!y -ingle-c-ied- He JVIt- tin.t til,- I ! C!i > O I i

in ij> <? Ji<*nl . oiK’inc. J bo secr*'iiuy ( Air. ii. Manden) tul'i io’it! si <• iim *<i to bv a moot point a- I'. a iu'Uiur -h' l kiiioij or Uu* .Sliorthoni - - 'hoa i ion lm<J hot-a fir.-? in tljo fld'i 1 23 nnineHifui wifli Jjn* hard tcHtiog <' 1;*• ji:»-. Iho po?iiion at prcsi/ut iri t.o>ja 2ii‘*.:Uojj with tho moviMMoal. was that u ji i* **i As'oviation had hcmi j lormi'd, tho ITiiori co v. 11ii tho Association, aud 11f>*.*. a oommit?‘‘‘ was njid‘*i takjji*x t lor ffornation oi groups. Th<: Chairman (Air. u. Is. Jfuncan; thought that tho A. and I*. Association was hardly rcfjuircd in I}»♦ * mat n r The Association had bem formed, and flu* committee should now be left to form the groups. -Mr. O'Dwyer conbrnted that the A. and P. Association should interest it* •edit in the movement, as it way »a much stronger tlian the Shorthorn Asocial ion. Jt was the Union's duty to ask the A. and \\ Association to do its part. Mr. Duncan: J don't agree with tJmt view at all. Mr. O'Dwyer: Well, of course, that is a iiiatttsr of opinion. and J don't agree wills you. Mr. A. W. .Jackson said that twothirds of the A. and P, Association * mer/ibers were interested in sheep. f ATr. O’Dwyer: They should be two* ] thirds interested in cows. The discussion proceeded along rnentative line.-, the chairman eon tin uing to profess his failure to see where •he A. and P. Association came into the matter. fi The .Shorthorn Assocdatiou seeme«i as though they wanted to give us the lead, and we Jet them.' r he sai,L ,X 3 Mr. O’Dwyer; It’s not a question ol who can do the most good. The morai support of the A. and V. Association is wanted. * The discussion was brought to a cld.-o at this stage by a point of order raise* by Mr. A. D. Lo*;. Mr. O’Dwyer thereupon moved, trd Mr. Jackson cr-eondc-d, and it w: earned, that the Marlborough H--r.i T. '■ Dig Associatirm should fee asked if it did not consider that the co-operation of the A. arid V. Assoc in t ion should hi sought in establishing herd testing.