FARMERS TOLD TO PLAY GOLF
"Die Press” Special Service WHAKATANE, April 25. Dairy fanners were told at a farming conference at Whakatane to take time off from milking to play golf or go fishing. A Ruakura scientist, Mr J. D. J. Scott, had been discussing the No. 2 dairy experiment at Ruakura in which an
80-eow herd is expected this year to set a production record of 625 pounds of butterfat to the acre. The herd has been rotationally grazed on a farm of just under 46 acres. Mr Scott was asked by a farmer about the labour required to milk a cow and three-quarters to the acre. Mr Scott said he regarded it is essential for men to get breaks from the tedium of milking during the season. He suggested that one milking a week could be omitted from February on without anymarked effect on production. Milkers at Ruakura were given time off so that the tedium of the milking chore did not get them down and he believed it had helped the standard of milking and stockmanship. “I believe, too, this can be duplicated on the larger commercial farms from February on,” he said. “It does not really matter if you drop milking once a week so I suggest you take an afternoon off for golf or fishing.” The comment was greeted with loud applause.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31043, 26 April 1966, Page 14
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