HERD TESTING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 3

HERD TESTING

MODEL DALEFIELD ASSOCIATION. . DECEMBER STATEMENT. The figures for the teste made during December in connection. with .the model Dalefield Herd-Testing Association. have juist been. issued. To the formers co&noerned the statement must be full of instructive Seasons. For instance, they will know how tho different herds aTc fed, and will bo able to form an idea as to the relation feeding" and management bear to milk production. The leading herd in December is ait the head for the first time, -and -this by a big .-margin. Why lias this herd advanced—though it has all along boon in a prominent positionwhile many of the other." herds' have { alien • back ?'-. Is - the consistently good form 'of-the; herd and its, increase, m yield in a"dry'period, when other yields are failing, been due 'to artificial - feeding?. . The average of this . herd: for December is 13491 b of ' -3.78 milk, thus giving an average fat product of 51.071 b. The highest yielding cow in the herd has given 20621 b of 3.8 milk, or 78.351 b of fat (she is a Shorthorn cross), amd the lowest 10701 b of 3.2 milk, or 34.241 b Wf felt, flhus being-, the best of the poorest cows in .the twenty herds.' Tlie average butter-fat nield of this herd for the four months is as follow:— Septembar. 37.581 b- October, 44.651 b; .November,: 45.77Qib; December, 51.071 b. The best herd in September gave an average of 38.881 b of fat, 42.131 b in October, ■ 39.841 b. in November, and 39.471 b in December. Tho best herd in October, and it was 'the best in November, gave ,38.051 b in September, 47.251 b in October, 47.701 b in November, and 46.961 b in December.

The poorest herd last month gave a'n average of 33.44tb of fat, the poorest ; n November 35.031 b, the poorest in October 34.391 b, and the pooirest in - September 25.631 b. • The averages per cow for the different months- are' as follow: —Sentembe.r, 9401 b of 3.5 milk. 32.901 bof "fat; October, 11441 b of 3.58 milk, -11 lb of fat; November, 11001 b of 3.58 milk. 39.411 b of fat; December, 10411 b of 3.75 milk, 39.051 b of fait. ..- ... ;..... -.V

Tho highest individual yields of fat" in the different • months have been, tember, 56.381 b; October, 67.121 b ;< November, .69.071 b; December, 78.361 b. ~lm the case .'of the last cow it was the only instance in- which the best cow was in the best herd. '