JERSEY BREEDERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 20 January 1913, Page 6

JERSEY BREEDERS.

STRATFORD BRANCH OF THE

ASSOCIATION

The Stratford branch of the New Zealand Jersey Breeders’ Association met on Saturday afternoon, when Mr J. D. Healy presided over an attendance of ten members.

Following on a discussion of a series of resolutions passed by the North Taranaki branch of the Association, it was decided to recommend: — “That in future all entries received by the secretary shall be acknowledged within one week, and the applicant advised as soon as possible Oi the registered number granted by the Association.

“That the council of the Association urge the Government to carry out an economic cow breed test at one of their farms of instruction, six representative cows of each breed to be selected, a record kept of feed, the area of pasture occupied, and a daily record of milk and butter-fat; the test to be for a period of twelve months.

“That in future the secretary of the Association send out to every member of the Association on the 31st March in each year an invitation to enter for registration all his animals then under 12 months of age; and that a further notice be <?ent a month later to all who have not responded ; and that it be a recommendation to the council that the names of sires and dams of animals in register of merit be recordC A in all future volumes.”