MORE COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 899, 19 August 1910, Page 8

MORE COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS.

';-:. EXTENDING'DAMFIELD SCHEME. ;'..;'■;. From, what wasgathcred by a Dominion v ; representative, yesterday it is. certain that. of. Agriculture -is., about; .-J. to'make an endeavour to extend.in'a'cohV.', wderable degree tlio scheme' of cqw-test-V.'ing .inaugurated at, Dalefield.'-. .In-fact;, ;,the.:establishment of cow-testing associa : . ;'lions promises to be one ot the features ■'' .of-this.season's work ot the Dairy Divi-. '.'.Vsidn.- - ; ;.V' : ■.-."" '.-. ■;,v;/rime,will-tell.what the resultant value >-will:be,but tuu-general', idea of cow-test-, ; '.ing has/up to the present, had>a ! .rather; -;.zig-zag passaged , They-niore. progressive, "farmers have for.years favoured'theprin-.' y ciple and spoken in-advocacy:of. it,'--and ..a small number-have.gone in-for., .it and' ';'practised it. It-must • have astonished; to,hear or to read the.reasons ;. ■ givjen by some farmers for being against v the formation-ol associations—that' they .'•had; tried cow-testing '■: and. found that '.ytheir..herds were worse, after a year or ,''■:' two years' according to the iiiihdividual'.tests;/'than -theySwere-.when c, things were: allowed, to look 'after' them-' 'y selves."' The report of'.the testing adyo-: . vcates is,:of Icoiirse,.thatjthoiwdrk'.'.was not; 'y; done - properly; y '•':•::, ."' ] '' :/ '■, : "■_..- ,:'-'.. Since .the! formation of the; association •V;'Bt.i;Palefleld, more.-; interest..'has been. ;.:ehown in. the movement, •: but: little has, ".really, been'.done.'/Several' dairy coin,>;'panies;have: discussed the matter at their : j : annual: meetings,-' but,- • generally, .propos-- ': v ulsi-'to .form -associations have'been re-' '' ■•■ jected.. It". the Dairying. Division is out : Von;the, warpath, it will.be interesting.to, ammunition ;ity.is going 'to use' ; to destroy, the contentions.',of those who y are.standing '-in the way of the/expansion 7. of. the: scheme.; yerh'aps last year's opeva-,;-tiohs .at Dalefield'yprqyided ■ them 'with' a -.supply of facts;and■figures'.which -will be ':■■ distributed. in some, form? to the daiiy ■':.. farmers. '"■•'.".-'!.",. v'S;- ; :y/'::;-"-.'' .-"' '■■''■.'.>;. y•': '.When:the"Dalefield-Associa'tioh,was is-' 'v.tablished. it was- stated- that if success '.■■^■followed: -it: would' be' ex,y tended, to. other';'dairying, centres;.- .and/, . : i:'late'f,'';intrqdn'ced all over.the Dominion.

;.-.:-Presumably, '.'..the i extension now-..contein-■i-:?plated isan.vpUjrsuance'.'of that policy. :, jAi-'lt'-'fyas also■'.ascertained ; .by ! the piess■;,'maii, that' two/associations -will .probably •I -be .formed In' 'i'aiariaki this stasun.;ana .;.' that some'j representative';of the Dairying ':.'./ Division of the- Department" will: proceed ;,,:/ ; north immediately to make an endeavour "{. .-tb.-get •' the-farmers in centres to, :•;-.; adopt the''-idea: •■'':>'■;.• iV-V : .•'■.' .---;'>;';' ■■'j.V.Otm of. ; the two factories to. be selected .ls.iKaupokohui. Kaupokohni; is,.about a' ;.-;■..dozen",' miles.:- up :,the ■ coast than'. "-..Hawera,-arid'the'factory: is- one" of' Hie' .>.-'• largest, if not the 'largest,.'in the world, is_ managed .-.by-,'Mr. .IPDonald.: It ~;Udraws;its. suppliesiro'm-.a portion ; of the ',;renowned (Waimate.Plains. ... '' ,'

as ';mony : .farmers as; possible, the authorities I'fwiU-'prbbabljt-'••select; a North. ; Taranaki ;,factbry asthe headquarters of .'the other -jVI;V".; ':.?•.■,-.;>^'i::-;:-V ! /, *:«.

' v;j-r The. '.is' to; meet the i' ; '6nppliers"o£;th'e..Kauppk6nai factory, toftday jito'Jplace':-a' proposal resnecting. an J ; associationo before ■'• theni, :i and".■'..ascertain v-wi.thout delay it they;are williiiirvto take ■rtip.the matter.,.:'; :?■;'.'.■'■.■■ ,'/., : ;.It ;'is understood .tKat'it-Has'been devoided .to' form:an association at Palmerston .'North, another,in the Auckland dis■;,'..tric.t,iand:some in,the : South-Island. •,•.'. '.■;?.; It ; .is. evident;, that .the' Dairy Conimis?:Ymoner'has ,cbme to the. conclusion that -:, system, is Hie be'st for pro-' ,j>jnoting:'herd .■.testing.:': ;;*', ''-A,.-.; '.'•','■: ■'~■.:,