SAFEGUARDING THE HERO.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5359, 17 February 1916, Page 2

SAFEGUARDING THE HERO.

In the building up of a dairy herd the importance of mating the cows with a. bull «!' a deep milking pedigree cannot bo over emphasised. If this is not done the !>est results will not be attained and developments will be slow and uncertain. Where herdtesting is practised dairymen can be sure ot what they are breeding and ot what they are buying—they are not buying >i “pig in a poke.” The principle is that of scientific culling as practised with sheep and every other class ol stock .and as followed with grain and other plant products, (lulling will vastly increase the average output, and increase not only the total profit, but the ratio to cost In one district in Sweden. where milk records have been kept for over ten yawns, there has been an increased yield of over SKMX) gallons per row. In Holland the average yield from one hundred thousand cows in the province ol Friesland has Itccn'raised to over 8(H) gallons ]>or annum. In Denmark. on the island of Funen, where more than forty thousand cows are being tested, the average yield has been rais,si to over 751) gallons. And results of a like nature are reported from France, the United States, ami other countries u her,, milk records are being kept.

In addition to substantial increases in the milk yield, it lias been found that in ninny eases then' is a slight improvement in the <puilit,v of the milk; increase of from 0.05 percent, to 0.15 per cent. <V lot in the milk having been recorded.