HERD - TESTING.
Sir, —Lota ol suggestions have been put forward recently t-o better the lot of the poor hard-worked farmer. May Ibe allowed to add mine to the list? The average butter-fat per cow for 1925 was under 1701b,, taking the whole of New Zealand. If herd-testing was compulsory and any cow not producing SJROIb. was branded ns a robber si that there was no chance of her getting back another season to rob someone else (the usual practice is when a cow is culled from a herd to sell her as a springing cow), and each cow branded in a simple winner, showing the class she belongs to above 2501b. then in a very few seasons we should hear less of the hardships of cow-spanking less of the long Isoura worked by children in the sheds, less of the lure of the city, and: nothing of our unemployed., L. Durman,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19513, 17 December 1926, Page 10
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