DAIRY BREEDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 3

DAIRY BREEDS

FEDERATION MEETING. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Breeds Federation was held at .the Showgrounds yesterday, Mr J- Parlane (Christchurch) presiding. Others present were Messrs, J. H. S. Allan, J. G. Donald, S. M. Atkins, IT. F. Johnson, It. A. Wilson, C. G. C. Dernier, W. Miers, G. Dawick, W. J. Thomas, A. H. Ward, W. M. Singleton, It. A. Candy, R. S. Leach, T. Itanford and J. P. Kalaugher.

The Franklin Jersey Club wrote stating that it had'passed a resolution to write to the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association and point out that at sales of stud stock held in saleyards, where both pedigree and grades were offered, the auctioneers often sold grade cattle in guinea bids, and it was suggested that such bids should be reserved for registered pedigree stock only.—lt was decided to support the resolution to make a joint representation to the Auctioneers’ Association, so that bidding in guineas would be restricted to registered pedigree stock only. In reply to a letter received from the New Zealand Friesian Association asking that the duplication of herd names among the affiliated associations should not be allowed, the meeting decided to take no action.

The president, in his report, referred to the war v crisis and stressed the urgency of increasing the supplies of foodstuffs so vital to the welfare of the Homeland. The election of officers resulted. — President, Mr W. J. Thomas (Carterton); vice-president, ■Mr R. S. Leach fWoodville); secretary and treasurer, Mr J. P. Kalaugher '(Auckland); representative on the Herd Recording Council, Mr C- G. C. Dermer (Cheltenham). The secretary of the Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association forwarded a copy of a letter lie had received from Mr I). Nicolson. of Winton, in' which the latter dealt with ways and means of raising the bufterfat standards of dairy herds. Mr Nicolson deprecated the use of scrub bulls and advocated legislation to prohibit this, and also to allow only purebred sires to be used. He also urged that legislation be sought to prevent buyers of bulls from leasing these animals where they had been sold 011 the understanding that they were to bo slaughtered at the, works. Such steps would give protection to tile stud- stock breeders, who were having an uphill battle. The writer of the letter contended that the only wav to increase the butterfat standard of cows was through the breed societies: ,thc breeders of purebred stock “should be protected from the menace of the scrub bull and the bull dealer.” It was decided to refer the letter to the Herd Becofding Council.