COW TESTING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11648, 17 August 1916, Page 5

COW TESTING.

APITI AND CHELTENHAM RE ■SULTS. Mr Sam S. Steele, official tester for the Cheltenham and Apiti Cow Testing Associations, supplies the following averages of the .1 Pis-Hi season:— CHELTENHAM. Association's average. 4818! bs muti. 4.hi test, 501.731 bs, 310 days. Highest bird’s average,'’ <56773 bs milk, 5.40 lest, BSS, Soltis fat, 304 days. Lowest herd’s average. 33121bs milk, 3.08 test, 133.01ibs fat, 160 days. Highest individual cow’s yield, 9637 lbs milk, o 46 test, 527.431bs fat. Lowest individual cow’s yield, 16641bs milk, 3.87 test. The three leading herds in the Cheltenham Association were;C. Q. C. Dermer, Cheltenham, 66773bs milk, 5,04 test', 446.551 b= tat. N. C. Jensen, Kimbolton, 57651bs milk, 4.8 test, 358.891 bs fat. W. H. Booth, Feildiag, 56361bs milk, 5.45 test 251,031bs fat. APITI. Association’s average, 45681 bs milk, 4.00 test, 183.131bs far, 196 days in milk. ■ Highest herd’s average, 75531b8 milk, 3.99 test, oOl.aSlbs fat, 263 days. Lowest herd’s average, 2870iba milk, 3.70 test, 106.341bs fat, 174 days. Highest individual cow’s yield. 33,9031 bs milk, 4.27 test, 508.301 bs fat. Lowest individual ' cows yield, 1879 lbs milk, 3.32 test, 60.531bs fat.

The three leading herds in the Apiti Association were: John Gould Apiti, 75531bs milk, 3.99 test, ' 1 301.581bs fat. E. Alexandia, Table '[ Flat, 56491bs milk, 435 test, i 240.55ibs fat. A. McMurtrie, Table V Flat, 57321bs milk, 41,6 test, 238.401 bs fat. f The increase of butter fat per cow ] on the 1914-15 season is 11 per cent, j which is equal to 33 tons of butter on the Cheltenham Dairy Company’s ! output. ‘ ]