CONTINUED TESTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 21

CONTINUED TESTING.

QUESTION OF PROFIT. One is often asked the question, " Does it pay ".o keep your cows in a testing association alter you have bad tnem tested a. year and know what they are ?" writes a testing officer in Hoard s Dairyman. It certainly does, if the results of three vears' testing in the Winger Creamery D.H.1.A.. Minnesota, mean anything. That the members of this association believe it pays to continue testing year after year is shown by the fact that during the second year 19 cut of 26 were pd members. This year there were two members testing their first year. five were in for their second year and the remVrider have tested three vears or since ;!:• association was organised. And has it paid ? During 1928 the I'D oid-members increased their herd average? over the previous year by 75'ib. of butter-fat, or aa increase of 23 per cent., a good 1 heakhv increase. However, this vcar even better results wore had. For the first nine months of 1529 the associa tion averaged 263!b. butter-fat per cmv as compared with only 1911b. for the mm period in 1928, a 38 per cent, increase. Thus it was shown in this association that production increases from year to vear as the herd improves through cont :nt/ed culling, better breeding, and as the owner is liable to add improvements .such as a silo, water tank or drinking cups in the bam, more acres alfalfa, sweet clover pasture, and be.tter feeding methods.