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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3928, 19 July 1937, Page 4

According to tabulated figures published in the June issue of the official Abstract of Statistics, herds of under thirty cows (7703 in number) represent 40 per cent, of the total herds, but comprised only 17 per cent, of the total eows; while herds of between 30 and 69 cows (7428) were 38 percent. of the total, and also had 38 per cent, of the total cows. Only 972 herds—s per cent.—had 100 cows or over, but they aggregated 130,094 cows, or 16 per cent, of the total. Butterfat production per cow milked during any part of the season averaged 2271 b, a figure slightly in excess of the estimate (2181 b of the Department of Agriculture for all dairy cows in the Dominion. The average ranged between 2621 b for herds of under 10 cows and 2091 b for herds with ten to 29 cows. From the low point mentioned averages rose fairly steadily with increasing size of herd till the 90 to 99 group was reached with an average of 2411 b, after which a progressive but not uniform decline occurred.