DECEIVING TO THE EYE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18382, 28 September 1929, Page 10

DECEIVING TO THE EYE

For some years it has been a fairly general belief that a yellow and an oily skin, particularly in a Jersey cow, was an indication of high butter-fat production ability. Mr. A. H. Humphrey, a herd-testing officer, has his doubts on this point (says ' the Live Stock Bulletin). He says that, at the beginning of the season, he endeavoured to pick out the best and the worst producers in the different herds which he had to test. He had little success. One dairyman for whom he was testing showed a young Jersey Cow with an exceptionally rich, yellow skin. Both he and the dairyman agreed, he says, that she should be a high-producing animal, but their judgment was shattered when the Babcock bottle proved her with a 3.4 test, and the blowing periods with a 3.5 and 3.6 l_~t, respectively. The same dairyman pointed out to him a large cow showing Friesian type strongly, appearing anything but a promising tester. Both he and the dairyman concluded that she was one of the poorest testers of the herd, but she tested 4.1 per cent. After this, he said, he gave up trying to guess the test of cows. He found that it was a fallacy to rely on the judgment of the eye, and much better to rely on the Babcock bottles and scales, production dsoawpnwrshrdlu at rfat h z shrdl tauhmat shrdlur hmth mtfmf

The use of sulphur or of a material like the White Island product containing sulphur, calcium, iron and magnesium, has been found to have an important effect on the growth of crops like tomatoes and potatoes, strengthening stem and leaf growth and making the foliage more resistant to fungoid diseases.