FUTURE DAIRY COWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 11

FUTURE DAIRY COWS

EFFECT OF CALF MASKING While tho bobby call business was performing an oxeelient service in eliminating the unfit before they had a chance of entering the dairying industry, it was, according to- Mr. C. M. Hume, speaking at the annual meeting of conveners of the N.Z. Co-op. Herd Testing Association, a twoedged sword that was fit, the same time removing many potential producers that tire industry could i 11aiford to lose. just the danger, he continued, that with the wholesale slaughter of heifer calves the time would come when there would bo a serious shortage of young milking stock. In the heifer calf marking scheme, however, pointed out Mr. Hume, the industry was provided with a great safeguard- that would ensure the retention of the best calves. With these youngsters, by pedigree bulls' from.dams that had proved themselves as good producers, later going into the herds of jhe country definite improvement must unquestionably follow. The great increase annually taking place in the number of heifer calves marked by the X.Z. Co-op. Association is set out in the report submitted to the annual meeting. - The ■ first year C'll calves were marked, the second year .1 f>4l, and the third year «!339, while for the, season just concluded over 5000 calves had imprinted upon them tiie association’s hall mark. Ttielfuied in imjt year’s figures were >lO, bull calves marked under the pedigree bull * calf-marking scheme.