IDEAL DAIRY COWS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 10

IDEAL DAIRY COWS

NEW ZEALAND'S HIGH POSITION

APPRECIATED THE WORLD OVER.

(W MLBQRAPH.—SPBOUI TO TW» K»T.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

" No country in the world is so fitted as New Zealand for the production of the ideal dairy oow," said Mr. W. D. Hunt, the retiring president of the New Zealand Freisian Association, speaking at the. annual meeting in Auckland yesterday. New Zealand could produce a dairy cow of a type that could not be beaten anywhere in the world, Mr. Hunt added., and no other country offered better grazing facilities. Unlike Holland, where cattle were obliged to lay up in the winter, grazing in New Zealand was possible all the year round. There was every reason to believe that the Dominion was being appreciated the world over for the quality of its dairy cattle, and if full use were made of the natural advantages with which the Dominion was endowed dairymen throughout the world would look more and more ' toward New Zealand for their standard. High production of dairy stock implied continual testing. Mr. Hunt said the time had passed when bnyers would purchase animals just because they were purebred. What they wanted was evidence of producing capacity, but there were far too many breeders who were breeding inferior stock, and they had only themselves to blame if they failed to get a satisfactory market. THE 2000-GALLON COW. A great deal was heard in England about the " 2000-gallon cow." It was interesting to know, However, that in New Zealand the 2000-gallon per year had been exceeded 103 times, and by 90 individual cows. One oow exceeded 2000 gallons on five occasions, and another on three. No fewer than 82 Friesian cows had produced over 7001b of butter-fat in a year. Of that number, 49 had given between. 7001b and 8001b of butter-fat per year, 26 had given from 8001b to 9001b, five had given from 9001b to 10001b, one from 10001b to 11001b, and one had given over 11001b. It was only by constant testing that any advance could be made against the competing countries of the world, and if breeders of purebred dairy stock failed to undertake testing it were .better that they went out of business, because they would not do any good to themselves or others. REMARKABLE EXHIBITIONS. Referring to the forthcoming show of the Royal Agriculture Society, to be held in OhrLstchurch in November, and the pastoral division at the Dunedln Ex- . hibition, Mr, Hunt said that from the viewpoint of the cattle producers they would be two of th«> most, remarkable exhibitions ever held in New Zealand. The Royal Show would undoubtedly be the finest all-round exhibition of livestock ever held in the world, for he was convinced no other country could put up such a record as New Zealand. Some breeds might be beaten by foreign rtook, but in dairy cattle New Zealand could easily beat Britain, and when it came to sheep the Dominion could lose the others.

Mr. O. E. Robertson, of Wellington, who reported to the meeting on his visit to South America, where he attended the last International Cattle Show, expressed the view that New Zealand would do well to consider the importation of Canadian or South African bulls. Great care, however, would be required in selecting the animals, for the smooth type of show bull bo popular in Canada was quite unsuited to New Zealand dairy requirements.