PEDIGREE COWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 5

PEDIGREE COWS.

INSPECTION AND TESTING.

OPINION OF JERSEY BREEDERS.

At a meeting of the committee of the Franklin Jersey Club, held at Pukekbor, strong exception was taken to remarks against breeder?, of pedigree cattle la a motion at the annua]- meeting of tie .New Zealand Co-operative. Herd-testing Association, moved bj Mr. E. C. N. Robinson. c£ McrriasriUe, , pedigree breeders were blamed for not having all their cows tested. 31 r. A. Ingram, (Bombay], seconded the motion and is itported to have said that he would rather ase a grade bull with a butter-fat- barking than .a scrub pedigree bull, while 31-. Dynes Fulton, the president of the Association is credited with stating that, the basic principle of any such new test should be the absolute insistence on the .testing of every female la the bercL

Members of the Franklin Jersey Club were unanimous in describing the opinions quoted aii absurd. It was said that some champion butter-fat bulls in New Zealand were out of cows that had no C.0.E.. cr had never been tested, a notable example being Waipiko Masterpiece. Another such bail was Fcxe's Double, which was purchased from the late S. Lancaster, by the lata James Harris, of Bombay. Fortes Double is the sire o'i three 13 C.O.R. daughters, including Eoslyn Double Peace, with a C.O.E. of 5051b of fat as a junior two-year-old. let- the (jam of Fose's Patch, Flora Fox, hail never been tested. The dam of Flora Fez to Fore's Patch H.. with si C.O.E* of 4731b. and champion jihow cow in New Zealand. She was also the daughter of Majesty For, the sire of 32 C.O.E. daughters. The annals of the Jersey breed are full of such examples. The club also confirmed its adherence and belief in C.O.iL testing. Gronp-herd-tescinc was started to enable farmers to have their cows tested at a reasonable price for cullinc purposes. If farmers used it for culling purposes and used it honestly, it was a very satisfactory institution., But owing to caii-mamng schemes, some were inclined £o exploit it commercially, and use it to boost their herds and put up records. Under croup herd-testing there was no inspection of the cows being milked the night before they went under test. If an unscrupulous man. therefore, milked his cows early tne night before he could easOv gist a period of 14 hours between the night's and the morning's makings, and if he milked them twelve hours later in the evening on the day the test was taken he would naturally get _a heavy weight of milk on that particular day under which his test was taken, and that would be his average for the month. On the other hand, under"the C.O.E. system, the supervision was much stricter, and records could be relied upon.