MILK TESTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 431, 23 June 1922, Page 2

MILK TESTING.

*■ HIGH SCHOOL WINK ALL PRIZES. At the, National Hairy Show the milk-testing comp Til ion, open to fanners’ sons and daughters, public and High and Technical School' :• Indents, drew twenty competitors. Tbcs.o Were first put through a practical tost, following which they were git en a theoretical lea 1 - oi seven questions. The compeldmu was very keen, and the number of poinls bol'ween the contestants ua,- snail. The [ollonving was tho result, the iota! possible mai'.ks being ICO:—Desmond Waters (Paine r,-ion North, Boys’ llirh School), 97 points, 1; Mervyn Rohinso,r (P.N.8.H.5.). 92 pi int:-. 2;' (I. McSweeney and Leslie Carpenter (P.N.8.1i.5,) oo poinis, 3 otpud. 'ln,, pace (Mr A. 0. Banner), one oi die Wan gap ui Kdi2c.il ion Board's agrioulii.i,d in.-peeioi's, (*:•'piressed huiisell as highly pleas, (i v iih tho ivmhs of ( Be compeliiion. h showed, he -aid, dial the .-object of milkI|._i lug was rccei ing excellent aiteiilion in dn sclniols. There was not one weak ~ mpedior iliroiigL'Cin, although some pi them would have scored more heavily if di,*had vorki-d uion (piiekly, because , peed nn,.-i be an .dial. combined, of eon ,’se v. idt accuracy: ’lie junior members dov,ed ait good progo— - . ’l’be entries showed dial tin teeU were getting good support. Testing, sail I the judge, was the basis of the productive: 1 herd.