HERD-TESTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 20

HERD-TESTING

A DECREASE SHOWN

<By Tele<rraph-Press Association.) _ J™* PLYMOUTH, June 21. The Minister of Marketing (the Hon. V. Nash), who left Wellington by car his morning, is expected at New Plynouth this evening to open the Taralaki A. and P. Winter Show, and tomorrow afternoon he will address anc >pen the annual National Dairy Asso fvpi 0n s »nn° n i e , for which alre adj wer 200 delegations have taken al h £u av 2 lla , ble hotel accommodation. The first of the subsidiary meeting: ield in conjunction with the main con f™. e °P"«d today. This was th( £rrf iT etm | 0f the Grouj Herd-testing Federation. A decreas in the number of cows under test ir (few Zealand during the past year wa reported by Mr. G. R. Herron Th, the eSI d d fffi^n He b , lam J! d decrease t the difficulty of obtaining labour ii cowsheds which resulted in man Ste rdS a nr, g „ I™.™ ?t the last nun ute, and to the incidence of disease He stressed the importance of the l as m^ a "u d !! x P res sed Pleasure at th. steps which had been taken toward S a - 1, V ise 2 se amon * st th * s nerds m New-Zealand. The total number of cows chareet for during the season, stated the re Port was 245,178, compared with 252.1 a m the previous season. In additioi there W ere 9569 association cows te, e which were not subject to levy Th retiring members of the managemen committee, Messrs. G. R Efe?™ tw™ Cfe re ' electe d unopposed M' Herron was re-elected as president