HERD TESTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9670, 8 December 1909, Page 3

HERD TESTING.

KEFORT OF DALEFIELD ASSOCIATION.

The third monthly report of the Dalefbld Hard-testing Association has besn issued by the Dairy Division of the Department ol Agriculture. This shows that the cows in the test are still doing excellent work. The summary indicates an average yield per cow which is much the aarre as for October. For that month, with thirty-one days, the average cow pioducud forty-one pounds of fat, whereas ir. thirty days in November she produced 39.4111)3.

The best herd for Novembar averaged 1,3091bs of milk, testing 3.(54 per cent., and yielding 47.701bs of fat per cow. The average cow of the herd wi*.h the lowest yield produced 1,0461bs of milk, testing 3.35 per cent., and yielding 36.031bs ot fat.

The cow giving the largest yield, as calculated for the month, produced 2,0931bs of m'lk, testing 33.3 per cent, and yielding 69.071b? of fat. The lowest yield during the month was from a cow producing 4201bs of milk, testing 3.6 per cent., and yielding 15.121ba0f fat. The best herd, according to the first month's test, that is giving the highest butter-fat average, gave an average of 38.83Jbs of fat that month against 42.13 in October and 39.84 in November. The best herd in October was the best herd last month, giving 47.251bs of fat in October and 47.70 lbs last month. It ran very close| to putting up the best work in the first month, its average yield of fat then being 38.061h5,' against 38.831bs of the leading herd.

The very complete table issued by ;he Department for the association .8 full of instructive lessons.