HOW THEY DO IN AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 90, 6 October 1911, Page 2

HOW THEY DO IN AMERICA

SHOULD WE EMULATE? Auckland, October 3. A young New Zealander, Mr. W. C. King, of the Waikato, has just returned after studying veterinary surgery at the I University of Pennsylvania, where lie obtained the degree of veterinary medical i doctor. Speaking to a reporter. Mr. King remarked that he had visited a number of veterinary schools in England, and found them a little behind the times in the way of equipment and methods, as compared with the American schools, which were assisted by the State, and were probably ahead of any similar institutions elsewhere for up-to-date methods. This had resulted in farmers taking particular care in having nothing but purebred cattle on their farms. The system of weeding out has been carried on, and has resulted in the gathering together of magnificent herds, and some of the individual yields of milk were enormous. In the matter of securing a pure supply of milk, America was ahead of New Zealand, the milk supply being obtained from cows that were certified as being free from tuberculosis, and the milk was known as "certified milk." The management of live stock in America was in the hands of a State Department, called the Live Stock Sanitary Board, and this board issued certificate's to such sires as were considered sound after an examination by a State veterinary surgeon. The work of the board was keenly appreciated by farmers, and the good results in the raising of the standard of the stock were apparent | everywhere.