Town Milk

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 16

Town Milk

Sir, —F. W. Fiecken appears to enjoy erecting “straw men,” which would be better fed to his cows or used for bedding. He should pursue his quarrel concerning the statement, “Change to a higher-testing breed or cross,” with Mr M. G. Hollard, senior lecturer in animal science at Lincoln College, from whom it was quoted. Mr Fiecken’s dictum, “Breeding and prrx duction and reproduction are understood only by practical men,” is a gross exaggeration. Reliance on the “practical” to the exclusion of theory is uncertain and timewasting. If doctors “bury their mistakes” (as the saying goes) Mr Fiecken’s are, I suppose, dispatched to the freezing works. Mr Fiecken does not dispute that the credit for the unique freedom of Christchurch milk from tuberculosis and brucellosis

is primarily due to the Christchurch Milk Consumers’ Protection Association. He confuses the question of disease with deficient solids-not-fat. A 2.4 per cent deficiency of solids-not-fat is not negligible.—Yours, etc, PAUL MALING. September 30, 1964.