MILK TESTING EXTRAORDINARY.
. .-At the Wairarapa ' A., and .P. ; meeting yesterday- at .Carterton,,some discussion:arose on. the: .'advisability of. adding),a; .champion butter-fat competition- to . the prize "list,: similar to that of the Manawatu A;:,and P. Association;'--'and' some of" the members present wore advocatingi home, 'milking '.for the tests in; preference to'- the ■ milliing':>.takirig place for a week in ■ some .placo; selected by tho Association., Mr.* 1 Eaglo' was. against Homo', milking,' .as. ho'.had'-'seen ;that' it'.had led. to .illegal-, subterfuge -'on', the.' part 'of. so'mo farmers. He instanced a' case 'in home-milk-ing .when he was judging; and. : wh'ere the, cow, tested 11'.';: she died, ho'.Vevcr, t-hc next day, and it .was afterwards- nsc'ertairiM .th(it' ! he'r, owner had-been,pu'mpiiig' butter-fat' into' her" udder. ■/'i:'. , .',:.': : : T //'. . Another member'present: stated .that in'a butter-fat, competition wncro. the- conditions wore home', niilking, .the farmer's son asked tho judge to;come-up to.,tho- other-,eiid of the*cow. bail whilc-his .father' fmished.'milkirig: the .cow. which-was -:under observation;.. The test/went.iup-.24 ..points.!;' ■ W',
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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