FRIESIAN BREEDERS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 512, 9 March 1920, Page 4

FRIESIAN BREEDERS

MEETING AT PUKEKOHE. COUNCIL A CLIQUE. NEW MEN NEEDED. At a meeting: of Friesian breeders held at Pukekohe some very slash ins oriticizni was levelled at the Dominion Council. Mr A. J. (inllichan, who was judge of the Friesians at the Franklin Show, exposed 1 lie foolishness of the case in which a man who had been absent 18 months from the Dominion still retained his seat on the council, though lie had never, even when in New Zealand, taken any interest in his duties. The council was fossilized, inept, a narrow, prejudiced clique. They should be kicked out, bag and baggage, and new members nut in, and local control instituted. His purpose in going- in was to keep out another person who had not interest in the breed'. He secured a resolution that a month's notice be given of nominations. That resolution was never acted on. And vet 1 lie Taranaki representative lost Ins yea I, while ill the trenches, ihrouuh n"t being nominated. The same man previously objected to was now again a member. Could anything be more stupid'.' A lot of the members of the council are not alive and never were, lie had tried to get a rational lest, milking twice a day, and to calve again within the year, under normal conditions. 'You cannot take a (>OO or 7001b ,bull and take a calf I'rom his dam and get top results. A (iooll) boosted cow was only a loi) one under normal conditions. There should be one certificate where a cow milked twice a day and calved within one year, and another for 36" days, under any conditions they likeo, even if the cow had not had a calf for three years. He had seen cows of first and second class certificates selling for the same price. If we took off all restrictions, and no questions asked, we could get up to the 10001b cow, as in America. Also, n specialised purebred cow which could not put up 305 lb butter-fat should not be put in a ring. Some farmers, being unaware of the conditions of the senii-ofhoial test, paid no or 10 guineas for a bull that was not wot til :10 or to shillings to them. Some n en were making a good thing by soiling ''boosted - ' cal'le to other fanners. The breeders must run the council and nol let' Ilie council run them. The council was a clique, which must he broken up. Mr. Pawcett condemned Ihe somiI 1 r-s 1 ever ttl:." days a", ton Ir.ii"'. and said this testing out- fully for record ' was calculated to lie do timonlal to rood breed in r ''. 11° likened it- 1o speculating in land, where !ho object was rather to "farm Ihe farmer"' Ihan 1o larm the land. Mi'. V\ . T.ouden. Akn Aka. maintained Unit buyers would purchase whero big records were obtained, ami thai it was not practicable to deparf from Ih° present svslom.

All', i. lli'dn'snn reckoned 1 hat Ihe ni:m nho lioii'.'lil pedigree cattle was buyinc;' so much paper (the pedigree table). The only snr? Wav f.) luiv was on the tost. A Kabcock annlied to :•]! sorts of cows, had finally conviii'-od him that the I'Yiesian was the t•>l >n >1 <-lir>r. The mooting decided to sunnort I lie Sont.li Auckland nomination, and Air. Hodirson, on behalf of that body he reivost'iilod, ])r«:mi i 'od to reciprocate I?! regard t<> ;m Auckland nominal inn. A further m'vlim;- of breeders in the pnnince v. ill lie held in Auckland shortly.