RURAL RAKINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 203, 29 July 1941, Page 8

RURAL RAKINGS.

Shearing is now in full swing in the early districts of New South Wales and an increase is expected on the previous season’s clip. Australian production is estimated to be 3,500,000 bales Dairy production on the West Coast of tho South Island will continue to bo confined to butter, it having been found impossible to make provision for the manufacture of cheese, as desired in connection witji tho Government’s undertaking greatly to Increase tho cheese export to Great Britain.

Saved from tho usual fate of a bobby calf, of which it was at one staye in danger, a cow in the Auckland district has achieved Iho distinction cf recording a production of 24,0001 bof milk and 9691 bof butterfat, with a tost of 4.04, during the last season. The yield is easily tho highest of any of the 117.015 cows tested by tho Auckland Herd Improvement Association during the 1940-41 season. A record both in membership and ;q.erago butterfat production a cow was established during tho past season, said iUr S. J. Sheaf, genoral manager of tho Auckland Herd Improvement Association in a review of tho past year’s progress. Altogether 122,000 cows, representing 2070 herds, had been tested, whilo flic average production a cow was 277.751 b of fat in 256 days.