DAIRY HERDS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 59

DAIRY HERDS

(To the Editor of the “New Zealand Mail. 55 ) '

Sir, —Attention has been called to the low prices ruling for butter in the Home markets, and to the desirability of improving the quality of our dairy herds.. Our farmers have been advised to procure purebred sires to replace the crossbred brutes they have been using. The progressive, sensible dairyman will understand the force of the suggestion and,act cn it.. If he wants dairy cattle he will either use a bull of tlie breed most noted for the production of large globuled butter-fat, or. one from a breed characterised by slightly greater milk production. It is .important that the bull shall be purebred, and that the buyer may have a legal claim to compensation should an animal, represented as a pedigreed one, not be registerable in the.herdbooks of the colony. Animals are being sold as pedigree stock which are not eligible for entry in any herd book, and others are represented as purebred which have no title to the name. Such beasts may cause serious loss to the. buyer, because they have not the prepotency to transmit the qualities of the breed they are supposed to represent. I understand that at; present there is no adequate legal provision for the protection of a buyer, and would respectfully urge tlie A, and P. Associations of the colony to take, action in the matter. I am, etc.,

/V■ -• a buchanan. Palmerston North, June 18th, 1904.