PROFITABLE TESTING.
RETURNS £RING THE PRICES “Hoard's Dairyman,” in discussing blie prontable side of testing, says ‘lt is not uncommon to hear men state that good yearly records do not increase the selling value of cows. Iliis. argument usually domes from those wiio can proiit more by not knowing what the cow is capable of produc,ng. The lacts are that cows, whether grade or pure bred, with good yearly tecoids and equal otherwise to those who have not, will sell for 100 to 200 per cent more. The “Holstein-Friesian World” ana1\ sed the public sales of 1027 and found that pure-bred cows with long lime records averaged over 660 dol., and cows without records and from untested dams sold for a, little over 200 dol.
.buyers of grade are demanding more than ever cows with good annual records. It is being found by the practical dairy farmer that the oow that •an make from 30q to 4001 b in a year is many times more profitable chan the one that .produces but 2001 b tab. The 'time is fast approaching when good prices cannot he expected or cows with no records.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 16
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191PROFITABLE TESTING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 16
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