COW TESTING.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2027, 17 September 1913, Page 5

COW TESTING.

LECTURE AT FEILDING. APATHETIC DAIRYMEN. (Our Own Correspondent.) The attendance at the Oddfellows' Hall yesterday aitemoon, when Mr Singletou was to givo au address on cow-testing, was disapprinting in tne extreme. It may have beeu the rdi hour at which the nieeti g was callef, and it may save been tat farmers are particularly busy just now, bot it is more than probable that tho=<e who staye i away word imbued with that apathy which c aracterises most meetings called which would mean immeasurable benefit to the farmer Mr Singleton did not deliver an address. It was not fair to expect that he shoul : do so to a painfully sin ill an ieuce. A brief desultory conversation was indulged in; tf-e rules of the Oheltenl'am Dairy Testing Association being tho.ghi suitable

Mr Singleton instanced cases where testing hud greatly improved the value of a nerd at very small expense.

Mr Nathan thought it a gor>' if all companies in the district combine' lu testing. Some 10 to 15,000 cows could be obtained, an i if a central site were established in FeiLiing two or three testers coul i be kept going He is to speak on the subject at fie meeting of directors of Awa'sori Dairy Company this afternoon, an; will circularise ail his sappliers and endeavour to find w-'iat support is also coming from Whakaionga and Gleu Oroua. Mr McFarland an <ertook to broach the subject at a meeting of Bunnyt orpe Co s-jpaliers and one or two others also uudertook to enquire in their istricts what support would be forthcoming.