The best four cows in the Waikpuaiti and Waiihemo Herd-testing Association, at an average price of Is 3d per lb for butter-fat, earned £l2l 3s, or an individual return of £3O 5s 9d per cow. A Friesian cow milked for over ten months averaged ljlb of butter-fat per day for the whole of her milking period. A Jersey heifer, in a milking season a: week short of ten months, averaged a little over lslb of butter-fat per day . foi* her whole period.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 September 1925, Page 5
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