ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
EXTENSION TO MANAWATU PALMERSTON NORTH, this day.
Plans have been made for the introduction of artificial insemination into milking herds in the Manawatu district next summer, if sufficient proven bulls can be procured by the New Zealand Dairy Board. Supplies of semen from selected bulls at the Ruakura Animal Research Station Hamilton, will be railed nearly 250 miles to Palmerston North, where Massey Agricultural College will act in a technical capacity in carrying out certain district tests. The Wel-lington-Hawke's Bay Herd Improvement Association has undertaken the organising of this group, whereby about 1200 cows are expected to be inseminated between October and December.
The first large herd group in New Zealand to be inseminated in this way was operated last year in the Waikato, with three proven Jersey sires from whom 600 calves are expected early this spring. Each of * these proven bulls has left daughters with an average production of not less than 3851b butterfat. The Ruakura Station will have the use of from 10 to 12 high class Jersey bulls this year, for the servicing of about 2400 cows in the Waikato and Manawatu areas. The district groups will be conducted as separate- units.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 6
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