COWS AND MILK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 4

COWS AND MILK.

ADVANTAGES OF TESTING. /

.A very crreat advantage derived from keeping milk records, especially if it is done by someone directly interested in the welfare and profit of the herd is this: flows are particularly sensitive animals, and the yield of milk is influenced to a ereat extent by the treatment they receive. both as regards feeding and their eeneral management: therefore anyone v/hr, keeps tho record has a preat opportunity nf discovering the cause from which a certain cow fails in her yield of miik. and he is in a position to nut tho matter ripVif, before nnv harm is done. The causes of cows falling off in milk without nnv apparent reason are many. For instance, a timid cow may be tied np next to a masterful one. or a new man !r«t rnnv . ' ,e employed, who is an indifferent milker, or a row of a nervons •emperament. mav be receiving such roticrh ifMtrnent ns will quite account for her / , n ? off - Acain, it mav bo that , 001 . rir ''' r '"it some individual siitil t '"u I 1 cnn ' lfl remedied bv a re, ens a, \° n - , Tjtrh of these re.i-.ons ,-nn defoetod verv soon bv tTkee t T , 'n ,0 IIP lhe COWR,wI order mil it n r :r r(1 ?- "V* V,licl > I'iossiblv