Town Milk

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 16

Town Milk

Sir, —Paul Maling has become very involved. He is now advocating for “his” substandard “cows and athletes”

the remedy: “Change to a higher-testing breed or cross.” Mr Maling evidently does not know the practical side of cows. Let us suppose they are athletes. Does he think that by crossing a four-minute-mile cow with a shortdistance bull a half-miler will be achieved? No, sir, it is not as simple as that. Breeding and production and reproduction are understood only by practical men. All cross-breeding does is to mongrelise any one pure strain. Mr Maling admits the supply of liquid milk' to Christchurch is unique in its freedom from disease. Then why harp on a decimal “deficiency” in solids which is purely seasonal and, I may add, not only pertaining to this area but from Auckland to the Bluff. I have never been perturbed about the decline in consumption, but am perturbed that some tinie in the not too distant future there may not be any supply available.—Yours, etc., F. W. FIECKEN. September 25, 1964.