Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4491, 20 November 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

— >W TESTING RESULTS MEB Burgess, of Warea, Taraone ! of the few dairy farmers ealise the importance of herd >, and who has, for some years, l out a systematic test of his sends ns (Farmers’ Advocate) suite for September, which we pleasure in publishing. The i are for the complete month, )th weights and teste correspond ; exactly with those given at the y. It is noteworthy that there iderable variation in the returns individual cows, and this seems icate that there is still room for vement in the herd. This being a herd that has already shown nprovement, what might be said numerous herds whose owners nothing in regard to their indil performances ? There is proa little work and some trouble e these tests, but it is as nothrhen compared with the labour 1 in milking useless cows SEPTEMBER, 1909. it. of mOk lbs of is. Test B.fat. 48 3.5 19.16 Heifer calved April 18 62 4.8 27.00 4th calf, calved June 4 51 4.0 18.00 Heifer, calved June 4 33 4.0 37.35 sth ca'f, cr’\ d Jrly 27 85 3.7 43.84 Aged. Calv July 29 84 4.1 44.43 sth calf, calv d Aug. 1 66 3.9 33.78 3rd ca’f ; or v_l Aug. 2 60 4.9 32.34 2nd ca’f; c \ 1 Aug 3 25 5.3 43.72 sth calf ; c 1 Aug. 4 90 4.9 26.91 2nd calf; calv 1 Aug. 4 78 3.8 37-19 3rd calf; calv 1 Aug. 7 38 4.2 26.77 2nd calf; ca’v lAug. 9 74 4.2 49.32 4th ca’f ; calwd Aug 11 168 3.9 41.68 7th ca’f; calv 1 Aug 14 137 5 0 31.87 Ist calf, cr’.v 1 Aug. 16 41 4.1 26.29 Ist calf, calv 1 Aug. 16 133 4.0 37.35 6th calf, calved Aug. 17 77 4.0 47.10 4th calf, crlv 1 Aug. 18 >65 4.2 44.73 Ag-1. Calv 1 Aug. 21 >62 4.0 23.50 Ist calf, calv 1 Aug 23 143 3.9 32.91 2nd ca’ ", calved Aug. 24 >56 4.9 46.85 3rd calf, calved Aug. 25 182 4.0 27.28 2nd calf, calved Aug. 27 16 3.9 39.62 4th ca’f, calved Aug. 27

replying to Mr. Bollard, the ter for Agriculture stated: “Wide isfaction is expressed by agriculrepresentatives regarding the it method of collecting agriculstatistics, and the reliability of esults is open to question. The •nment, therefore, has under conision the question of obtaining is by another process, which, it ieved, will save many thousands unds, and ?n addition, it is ex1, will give more satisfactory