HERO TESTING FEES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 3, 25 October 1924, Page 6

HERO TESTING FEES

RULING OF THE DEPARTMENT. At the last rihe dTaranaki Jersey Council \vmcn was held at Hawera, the secretary (Mr A. J. Barr) was with the Department of Agriculture and ascertain whether there was any rule bearing bn the question M vfhich the vendor of a cow under semioflicial test having paid th€ l! 'testing fees, the purchaser as dpidie charged for such fees. Mr Barr has now received fid fjiply from tlie Stdck Division in which it was pointer out that the matter- of testing fees was treated. iaußulfe>l3. The rule as to what fees should be charged wag; hot definite, "depending upon the circumstances, and therefore no provision was general rule. however, if a cow for which' guineas had been paid red to a non-testing breeder ;'niefdre not more than three made, the purchaser was asTcfeflto pay a further seven guineas, IruMjpmpletion of the ten guineas testing fee. For every visit less than seven, the Department usually asked one guinea

per visit,'which was considered reasonable. The ed £lO/10/- per year from each testing breeder. The fact that the cow which was sold might be the one for which the ten guineas was paid did not alter, the case,, the fees being classed according to farms ,'.rather than to individual cows. 1 So that if a breeder had 2 cows ,test Ctor which he paid £l3/137-, and chanced

to sell the one which calved first and therefore, for which ten had been paid, a purchaser who* had not already cows on test would-be .pj;ill asked to pay; fees according -to the . explanation set out above.