JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS

Evening Star, Issue 22973, 2 June 1938, Page 17

JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS

ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION G.O.R. TEST SATISFACTORY (Per United Press Association.J INVERCARGILL, June 1. The New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association, held its annual meeting in Invercargill to-day. Only once previously was the annual meeting held in the South Island, at Nelson some years ago. Mr G. T. Bell, president of the New Zealand Council, presided. Messrs E. D. M'Lejman (Papakura), VV. H. Booth (Carterton),’ and C. G. C. Dernier (Feilding) were elected life members of the association. Mr R. C. Leach was declared elected as the Hawke’s Bay member of the council, and Mr J. H. Morison (North Auckland) as the northern' member. The membership stood at 1,802, stated the annual report. Registration figures for herds represented ah advance on the previous year’s records, the numbers being 5,990 males and 9,614 females. Satisfaction would be expressed at the results of the C.0.R., testing. The balance sheet showed a . profit of £2BB on the year’s working. 1 The President referred to the £2BB profit on the year’s working, and stated that the reserve -account which had been built up during the depression had been drawn on for £2,269 in subsidies during the year. Since 1926 no less a sum than £58,934 had been returned to members in subsidies for testing. Of late years there had been some criticism of the schemeof herd testing, it being ; alleged that it encouraged the .raising of the butter-fat content of milk rather than the yield. The speaker had thoroughly investigated the position as president for many years of the Taranaki Herd Testing Association, and had found that: milk production, especially among Jerseys, had not suffered. The association : had repaid to its members by subsidies about half of the registration fees paid, stated Mr C, G. C. Dermer. The association’s fee.s were among the lowest in the world.: He claimed that the C.0.-R. system of testing should not take second place to the O.H.T. test.