TESTING THE HERDS.
FEBRUARY AVERAGES. figures for District Groups. The averages for the 85,669 cows tested by the New Zealand Herdtesting Association in February are as follow, the figures for February, 1929, being given in parentheses : ■Pounds of milk, 673 (571); test, 4.5 ! (4.5); pounds of butterfat, 30.53 (26.04). Last February 72,211 cows . were tested. j Walton.—Cows 1213 (—), pounds ■of milk 677 (—), test 4.4 (—), { pounds of fat 29.92 ( —). 1 Waharoa. Cows 1496 (2237), i pounds of milk 747 (635), test 4.6 (4.4) pounds of fat 34.79 (28.55). Te Poi. —Cows 2142 (1610), pounds of milk 689 (629), test 4.4 (4.1), pounds of fat 30.86 (26.42). * Okoroire—Cows 830 (914), pounds of milk 650 (604), test 4.7 (4.7), pounds of fat 30.82 (28.74). "Tiraii.—Cows 1753 (1824), pounds of milk 688 (575), test 4.6 (4.6), pounds of fat 32.17 (27.01). Putaruru. Cows 1563 (1189), pounds of milk 652 (579), test 4.1 (4.2), pounds of fat 27.33 (24.56). Kiwitahi.—Cows 1552 (859), pounds of milk 682 (584), test 4.5 (4.5), pounds of butterfat 30.85 (26.57). Morrinsville. Cows 2512 (2254), pounds of milk 660 (533), test 4.7 (4.5) pounds of fat 31.24 (24.53). Waitoa. —Cows 1466 (1494), pounds of milk 698 (636), test 4.6 (4.6), pounds of fat 32.17 (29.75). Te Puninga. Cows 2080 ( —), pounds of milk 644 ( —), test 4.8 ( —)> pounds of fat 31.17 ( —). Patetonga. Cows 858 , (686), pounds of milk 633 (517), test (4.6) pounds of fat 29.6 (24.2). Ngarua.—Cows 1086 (946), pounds of milk 751 (710), test 4.7 (4.6), pounds of fat 35.64 (33.15).
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1111, 3 April 1930, Page 6
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