VALUE OF TESTING

Shannon News, 21 December 1928, Page 4

VALUE OF TESTING

It is not uncommon to hear men state that good yearly records do not increase the selling value of cows This argument usually comes from those who can profit more by not knowing what the cow is capable of producing.* The fact? are (says “Hoard’s Dairypian") that cows, where grade or pure-bred, with good yearly records and equal otherwise to those who have not, will sell for 100 to 800 per cent more. The Holstein-Friesian World analysed the public sales of 1927 and found that purebred cows with long time records averaged over 650 dollars, and cows without records and from untested dams sold for little over 200 dollars. Buyers of grades are demanding more than ever cows with good annual records.

It is being found by the practical dairy farmer that tho cow that can make from 3001 b. to 4001 b. fat in n year is many times more protfiable than the one that produces but 2001 b. fat. The time is fast approaching when good prices cannot be expected for cows with no records.