ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
EXTENSION TO MANAWATU. PALMERSTON NORTH, August 1. Plans have been made for the introduction of artificial insemination into milking herds in the Manawatu district next summer, if sufficient proven bulls can be procured by the New Zealand Dairy Board. Supplies of semen from selected bulls at the Ruakura Animal Research Station, Hamilton, will be railed nearly 250 miles to Palmerston North, where Massey Agricultural College will act in a technical capacity in carrying put certain district tests. The Wellington-Hawke’a Bay Herd Improvement Association has undertaken the organisation of this group, whereby 1200 cows are expected to be inseminated between October and December.
The first large herd group in New Zealand to be insen|inated in this way operated last year in the Waikato, with three proven Jersey sires from whom 600 calves are expected early thia spring. Each of these proven bulls has left daughters with an average production of not less than 385 lb butterfat. The Ruakura Station will have the use of from ten to twelve high-class Jersey bulls this year, for the servicing of about 2400 cows in the Waikato and Alanawatu districts. The district groups will be conducted as separate units.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 60, 3 August 1944, Page 2
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