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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 5

Tri 'the 'matter of securihg a pure supply of "miffi, : ';th_'' Americans are ahead of the methods' prevailing m New Zealand. This is the opinion of Mr W. C. Ring, of the" Whikato, a. young New] Zlealonder, just returned' after -studying veterinary surgery at the ' University of Pennsylvania, ( .whose, degree V.M.D. (Doctor of VeteCiriary^Medicirie) lie now holds. The dairyman stallfeeds his cattle, fjo. he ; cannot afford to have an^.inferior,. animals m the herd. ,He v , /"for. the purebred— Jerseys, G_ern«ey»,' Hblfiteins, .arid Ayrphires being t,he breeds \ favored. '■. The grade "animal he- finds .does not pa;,*. 'Pure- ; milk],', or "ce*|ififjd milk," as it "is known m the State's, 1 isVriiilk from cows that have been cer>ifie£' f ree fi-om^tuber-] culosis. The system- of- -weeding out has Tesuited Jn, the gathering together of som«-tnagriifi ( ceiit > herds, and some of the iri4ividriai' yields arje phenomenal. The management of live, 'stock is m the hands of a State "Department called the I„ve Stock Sanitary Board, whidh controls among other * things the breeding of. stock, issuing certificates to such sires" as-.are considered sound after an examination by a State veterinary surgeon.