RECORDING RAISES YIELDS

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 10

RECORDING RAISES YIELDS

OUTPUT OF COWS INCREASED. Milk yields in many parts of tho country, as the result of the work of the milk recording societies, chow remarkable improvement. According to tho reports for 1935 the yield per cow has been increased over whole Counties, states a British agricultural journal. i The Suffolk M.R. Society, for instance, which claims most herds, members and percentage of cows recorded in the country-, states that in twenty years the average yield of Suffolk cows has been raised from 600 gallons to 800 gallons. Essex has 278 recorded herds with 11,143 cows; in the peak year of 192 S <hero were 277 herds. The best herd average was that of Lord Rayleigh’s Farms (Wcstocks), with 13,9611 b from 37 Friesians. Twenty-ono cows have given 20,0001 b or over, and for the second year a 3000-gallon yield is recorded by Suttonhall Beryl, belonging to the Exors., of Mr W. H. Hutley, which gave 30,2201 b and averaged 18,7421 b for three calves.

In four years a Derbyshire farmer raised his herd average from 88591 b to 14,3341 b, and his lion-pedigree Shorthorns headed the County Society’s list. A Friesian owned by Messrs Woodward Bros, gave the best individual yield—2l,649lb. Nine tons in 365 days wero produced by tho Friesian cow Clifford Chambers Friesian to head tho Warwickshire list for Mrs Graham Rees-

Mogg. Highest yield in Bucks was 24,007 lb by a. cow in the herd of Messrs Headington Bros.; their herd averago (Friesians) was 11,4771 b for 21 full year cows.

Just over a thousand gallons was tho average yield of twelve full year cows in the Longrove herd of Mr A. M. Allen, Long Buekby, Northanls. For the County 76 herds averaged 698 gallons, which is twenty gallons above last year’s figure; there are 126 animals which yielded 1000 gallons or over.

In Glamorgan the cup for the best herd averago was won by the Friesian herd of Mr W. P. Howells, Cwm Barry Farm. Barry, with 12,7861 b average for eleven full year cows. A dairy Shorthorn belonging to Messrs E. G. Reader and Son, Rhoose had an annual averago of over 12,3761 b for three years.