THE TESTING OF HERDS.
WOODVILLE RESULTS. The Woodvillo Cow-testing Association is testing about 1500 cows, am! the average return is as follows:
If, says the ‘Examiner,’ you calculate the price of butter-fat at Is 2d per lb., the best herd has produced for the month of November £2 11s Id per :;ow, and the lowest herd has only produced 18s od per cow. In other words, i herd of 36 cows producing an averige of 43.751 b. butter-fat per month will return as large a milk cheque as LOO cows which only produce an averige of 15.751 b. butter-fat.
]bs rnilli , per hottermonth. Test fat. Average of 1500 cows 860 3.5 30.26 Highest herd average 1208 3.6 43.75 Lowest herd average 481 3.2 15.74 Highest indiv. cow 1620 3.8 61/50 Lowest indiv. cow 255 3.2 8.16
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 4 January 1913, Page 7
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136THE TESTING OF HERDS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 4 January 1913, Page 7
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