DOMINION JERSEY HERDS
NOT UP TO AUSTRALIA’S BEST MELBOURNE. June 14.
After a six weeks’ visit to New Zealand, Mr P. J. Maloney, vice-president of the Victorian Jersey Herd Society, said that the best New Zealand Jersey cattle were not quite up to the standard of the best Australian Jerseys. He was disappointed with the bulls imported into the Dominion. He found Now Zealand butter-fat test records not up to the Australian. In New Zealand a test covered 365 days, compared with 273 days in Australia. In New Zealand the best cows in a herd were selected for testing every 12 months, whereas in Victoria every cow in a standard herd test was tested in 273 days. New Zealand dairy farmers were not greatly concerned about T.B: testing, which was being greatly speeded up in Victoria. Mr Maloney did not think that Victorian dairy farmers had much to learn from New Zealand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25563, 16 June 1944, Page 4
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