HERD-TESTING
SUBSIDY SOUGHT.
KIGNI FICANT FIGURES,
WELLINGTON, June 19,
A deputation from the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-Testing Association waited on the Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of Agriculture, to ask for a subsidy to enable herd-testing to be made general. It was stated that an increase of 101b of butterfat per annum in production per cow would mean nn extra £1,000,000, and if the average could be increased from 1801b to 2501b, which could be done in six years, £6,000,000 more would come into the
Dominion
Mr \V. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Control Board, supported - :.he application, stating that the average production in New Zealand was stated to be 1781b, against 2481b in Denmark. Herd-testing was now applied in a number cf countries. The sum of one shilling per cow was suggested as the amount the Government should find.
The Minister gave a sympathetic reply. Fiirance was the deciding factor, he said, hut he would go carefully into the question and see what . could be done.—'Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 3
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