BUTTERFAT PRODUCTION
Sir —I notice in your issue of the 20th Mr N. Carter, Secretary of the Eastern Bay of Plenty Herd Testing comments on an article on 'increased butterfat production for which I am respond sible. In the. course of his remarks he states that my information on the Marked Calf Standard is a "little out of date." I would like your readers to know that the article in question is mainly a reprint of a scheme I sent to the then Minister of Agriculture in when 3001b per cow was the required qualification for marked calves. The present method ltnown as the "Sire Survey" was not initiated, until 1936. From then it was .gradually developed until it has now superseded the former SOOlbs. per cow standard. I would like t<» state Sir ? that my object in resurrecting the said article was the hope that some such scheme might still be formulated to further the main issue i.e. the saving of quality heifer calves for the benefit of the industry instead of allowing them to be sacrificed as bobby calves. Yours etc., J. ARMSTRONG « Opotiki } July 30 } 1945.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 95, 3 August 1945, Page 4
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