HERD TESTING.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 10 August 1932, Page 4

HERD TESTING.

INTERESTING FIGURES. The annual average of butter-fat for the 1931-32 season of the Southland And Otago Herd Testing Association 4s instructive. Three hundred herds Trere tested, representing 9588 cows; the butter-fat* was 260.151b a cow, and the average of days milked 237. In the Otago Central group tho highest cow «rodnced 5101b butter-fat, and the fewest 391b; in Middlemarch the respective figures -were 540 and 56; 'Faleri, 649 and 50; Stirling, 621 and 40; Owaka, 616 and 69; Pukerau, 400 and 103; Mataura, 567 and 8o; Edenjdale (IUB cows tested), 670 and su; imeramika, 581 and 77; Waimatuku, SSTSetf and 46; and A 71 "The best herd average was 458.291b fat for a herd of seven cows in the iTaieri group. The best herds m each j„f the dozen groups ranged from th? 'fieure mentioned down to 311.471b for {STcows. One herd of. 57 cows averaged 403.581b. ! Th 7 benefit of herd testing is ilhisitrated by the progressive improvement 'Sathw taken place since tho inrtitaition. of the work: — N $ '1024-25 2T ITsI 183.72 for 190 days Mill*. 165 6705 216.04 for 218 days ■'£l2l? 161 6223 216,66 **2ls days ! 1M?."28 - 184 6925 224.98 for 221 days fi2l««9 248 9013 233.86 for 226 days iSIo SO " 248 67.84 251.87 for 229 days ftmßSl 257 8921 245.89 for 230 days !},,IJ, 800 9588 260.15 for 237 days