FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1915, Page 6

FARM AND DAIRY.

K.AI.TDKOXUI CWV-TESTLV; ASSOCIATION'. The following is a summary of testj:)g returns for the season pf 1015:The highest herd averaged 32j.22/1)3 fat per cow. The lowest herd averaged 150.941bs fat ipW tow. Tito ten highest herds averaged 2.52.9G1bs fat per tow. The ten lowest herds averaged lS't.Wlts fat per cow; T'lic average Association cow gave 23.'l.C5'Lbs fat per •cow. "The highest individual vicld was 4U.021bs fat in 00 clays!. It is generally considered in tlii« district (says the Star's correspondent) that it .takes at least £8 to keep a cow. Taking the price of butter-fat this seac-on at Is (id per lb. we lind the best cow (441.04) shows a profit of €25 2s (or 314 per cent.); the worst cow ahows a loss of Ute, or 10 per cent. The average production for cull cows supplying Kauipokonui Da in- Company is about ISSlbs fat. Had all'these cow's produced the same as the Association cow (233.f1.'>) Kaupokonui suppliers would .have received £37,125 more than fcliey did. It is eneoiiraflinc to see almost all farmers who started testing four and five years ago continue to do so. The criming season promises to be a record by the way new .members are matin" enquiries for testing outfits; no doubt in tlie near .future our average will be somewhere near the 'Denmark average of eSOJbs fat per cow per vear. °