HERD-TESTING.

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

HERD-TESTING.

WORK IN NEW ZEALAND.

ORGANISER APPOINTED

The management committee- tbo Dominion Group Kerd-t.est:ng Federation iias confirmed tbe appointment of. Mr. CJL Hume., cx Hamilton, as Federation

Supervisor. To secure a more definitely organised and more comprehensively controlled system. tiie Minister of Agriculture. Hem. G. W. Forbes, recently set up a new ceHixai. bcidv termed tbe herd-testing central exocutire, whose main fnnctions are. (!.} To direcrt tie policy of tie Herd-test-ins Federation and (2) to control tie allocation and £istabaiiaa of tie Government subsidy to ail herd-testing organisations. whether working under the group or the association system. Tids central executrre is composed of four representatiTes of tbe federation, one of whsa, Mr. Dvnes Fulton, acts as ehsmsfflu, 'he chairman of tie Dairy Board, the Direc-tor-General of Agriculture, tie director of the dairy division oi the Department of Agriculture, and tie director of tie Dairy ! Research Institute. It wis decided to appoint a herd-test-inn organiser, who "would be directly an officer >Qf the federation, but whose work would be carried out on Eaes directed bv the: central executive, one of. whose' aims iii to have lie whole of lie herdtesting work so organised and carried out as to bring it more and more toward lis point where it wiE become entirely seifsupporbing. Mr. Hume will continue to have iiis headquarters in Hamilton, lis central executive's object is to nnprors the eristin? herd- tasting organisations, and to encourage the formation of new associations. {Specially in those districts where no such work is at present carried on. Mr. Hume, who has been entrusted with 'lie important organising is „ a Hamilton-born man. In 3321 he was i cludrman of a special committee set up | by tie Farmers' Union in Mopinsvifle | to inquire into tie improvement of tie I then-existing system of testing. In tie | next year group-testing was kegun | through the in3ner.ee of tie Hamilton ! branch of the Farmers' Union, which I act-fed cn a report, from Mr. C. A. Mac- ! net. regarding the group system is« Au>i traiia.. In 1324 Mr. Hume was appointed | general ma.nnsrfcr of tie Zealand CoI operative Herd-testing Association, whicu | position he has heid ever since. • * The work of the association has_ | so rapidly thai at -tie present time 63 ; croup & ere. oofcratitig and about 9o,iaaJ ! cows are under test,"within this assoc»- | tioa., Witi Mr. Dynes Fulton. Mr. Hume I pluve'd an important part ra bringing. ; about the formation of tie ; Grou'i Herd-testing Federation m J.J---i Eight associations affiliated in the first, ! season, and the membership has new rsj ; :reascd -o 21 cowing dis- ; tricts from Iviutaia to Southland.