“THE WEAKEST LINK.”

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1923, Page 4

“THE WEAKEST LINK.”

We commend to dairy farmers generally, and particularly to the less experienced stockowners, an article in the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture by Colonel A. R. Young, which we reprint in this issue. That the cull row is a curse to the dairy industry everyone connected therewith will admit. To legislate for its elimination is, as Colohel Young points out, an exceedingly difficult matter, and apparently there is not much to hope for in coercive methods. What can and should be done is to prevent the propagation of culls, by careful selection of both cows and bulls of recorded milking strain, by attention to cows at calving time, and perhaps most of all, by care and attention in rearing the calves that are to become the milking herd of the future. Cojonel Young maintains indeed that this weakness in stock management is the weakest link in the chain of the dairy industry. In the simplest and plainest language he lays down guiding principles which, if followed, cannot fail to be of immense benefit to the industry, and ensure a larger return for his labor to the individual dairy farmer.