HERD-TESTING BEGUN
FIRST ASSOCIATION FORMED. “The year 1909,” writes the director of the Dairy Division, Mr. W. M. Singleton, “will be remembered as the year in which the Division inaugurated systematic herd-testing. This was at Dalefield,. where the first association was organised and 815 cows ‘ tested the first season. Thus the foundation was laid for the extensive movement which exists to-day. In 1912 the Government inaugurated the Certificate-of-Record testing of purebred .dairy cows, a service which has had a far reaching and beneficial effect on the improvement of our dairy herds. . “Since 1928 the Government has contributed annual sums ranging from £10,500 to £6OOO by way of encouragement and assistance to herd testing. The Certificate-of-Record testing costs almost twice the sum represented by fees received; so that the system is subsidised to around 50 per cent of the cost.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 20 (Supplement)
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