IDEAL DAIRY COUNTRY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 August 1925, Page 8

IDEAL DAIRY COUNTRY.

DOMINION LEADS THE WORLD

HIGH BUTTER-FAT PRODUCTION

No country in the world is so: fitted as New Zealand for the production of the ideal dairy cow, said Mr. W. D. Hunt, the retiring president of the New Zealand Friesian Assoeiatiori; spe_alnng at the annual meeting at Auckland. 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 "•razing facilities. Unlike Holland, where the cattle were obliged to lay up in the winter, grazing in' New Zealand was possible all the. year round. There was every reason tojbelieve 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 niore and more toward New Zealand for their standard. High production of dairy stock implied continual testing. Mr. Hunt said the time had passed when buyers would purchase animals just because they were purebred. What they wanted was evidence of producing capacity, but there were far too nianv breeders who were breeding inferioi stock, and they had only themselves to blame if they failed to get a satisfactory market. , , A great deal was heard m England about the 2000-gallon cow. It was interesting to know, however, that in New Zealand the, 2000-gallon a year had been exceeded 103 times, and by 90 individual cows. One! cow exceeded 2000 gallons on five occasions, and another on three. Speaking of. Friesian cows, no fewer than 82 had produced over 7001 bof butter-fat a year. Of that number 49 had given between 700 and SOOlb of butter-fat- a year, 20 had given from SOO to 9001 b, 5 had given from 900 to 10001 b, one from 1000 to 11001 b, and one had given over 1100 lb.

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.