WAIROA HERD TESTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18063, 13 April 1933, Page 9

WAIROA HERD TESTS

RETURNS FOR MARCH (H«ald Correspondent.) Butterfat production at a fairly high level is being maintained by herds tested by the Wairoa County Group Herd Testing Association, and last month the average for 44 herds was 27.15i1> ol butterfafc per cow. This figure is over 31b less than for the previous March, but the large increase in the number of herds under test may offset any advantage otherwise secured. The March averages are provided as follows, the figures m parentheses being those for March of last year 44 (33) herds, 1345 (1348) cows. 5121 b (6061 b) of milk, 5.33 (5.00) test, 27.151 b (30.311 b) of huttorfat; highest herd, 19 (?8) cows, 37.681 b (38.931 b) of butterfat; lowest herd, 12 (76) cows, 13.331 b (21.911 b) of butterfat; highest cow, 731 b (741 b) of butterfafc; lowest cow 4!b (61b) of butterfat.

The association’s merit list to the end of March is as follows, the figures given in tho order named being the month’s fat, the total fat for the season to date, and the number of days in milk :

Two-year-olds.—G. F. Jardine’s Murray, 54ib, 3281 bin 235 days; A. T. Carroll’s No. 215, 541 b, 361 bin 20 days; 11. S. Find sen’s Bell, 501 b, 3131 b in 194 days. Threo-year-olds.—H. S. Findsen s Rata, 531 b. 2131 bin 133 days; G. F. Jardine’s Polly, 481 b, 2501 b in 182 days : G. F. Jardine’s May, 471 b, 1411 b in 112 days. . , , Four-year-olds.—A. T. Rainbow s Molly, 641 b. 1991 bin 94 days; H. S. Findsen’s P. N. Oontessa, 71b, 4641 b in 194 days ; Shaw Bros. La France of Dunlavin, 491 b, 3861 b in 247 days. Mature.—A. T. Rainbow’s T. M. Pansy, 731 b, 5221 bin 216 days; A. T. Carroll’s No. 45, 661 b, 4341 b in 198 days ; J). D, Pryde’s Polly, 581 b, 3571 b in 211 days. .