DANISH MILK WEIGHING

Shannon News, 13 July 1928, Page 1

DANISH MILK WEIGHING

According to thft London Daily Telegraph, the weighing of the'dairy yield of each milk cow is .said'to have been' practised in. Denmark for upwards of 100 years, but faj;: testing and co-opera-tive recording are of more recent origin. Early in the '' nineties',' a beginning was made in the systematic recording of yield and quality milk pj;o> dnced by individual cows, and there was a herdyeompetition, in which prizes were awarded on these ,results, together with accounts of the quantity of food consumed by each cow, a matter of £on- i siderable- if not equal; im-1 portanee, _to output,. From tk» joints

of view,of the breeder it is- off'some moment, to know whether '.a cfertaia yield haV; been obtained by heavy; feeding of eojieentrates or by less forcing ;, methods.;. The Danish societies have i adhered/to the practice of food ijecord- '■■! ing ? au r f| in their returns to the Pre- ~,; Federation they ;'"; gave particulars'of the amount of food ' ~'i corisuriied by eaeh cow, as wclLjjas the ■"i •psual information cowcerning'.yiejjd and "■ | quality of milk.- Thefte returns?form a ;.J much'more reliable guide to the value. J j" ''',.. ' " ■' f '■ ' ~ • .- ■*