A TESTING REPORT.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16138, 1 July 1924, Page 8

A TESTING REPORT.

SOME FIGURES FROM AMERICA. An interesting report of the year’s work of the “Areata Cow Testing Association,” (U.SA.) is being published by the secretary, Mr W. A. Beer, in the “Pacific Dairy Review.” This Association tests over 1700 cows, I made up of 41 herds.

An interesting anu convincing illustration as to the importance of production can be had by comparing the 40 cows in Herd No. 4 and the 20 cows in Herd No. 25, the latter producing a greater total of butterfat than the former. Out of 20 cows, Herd No. 25 had 16 producing over 5001bs of butterfat, one cow producing over 4001 b., and 5 cows over 300 lbs. of butterfat. The summary of the work done by the tester for the Areata Cow Testing Association shows the following: Number of tests made .. .. 15,730 No. of cows tested 8 times or more (one test a month) 1,456 Average lbs milk per cow .. 7,333 Average fat per cow .. .. 320.4 Number Herds in Association 46 Total No. cows tested in highest month 1,636 Herd headed by purebred sires 36 No. cows producing more than 3001bs butterfat 848 No. cows producing more than 400ibs butterfat 300 No. cows producing more than 5001bs butterfat 50 No. cows producing more than 6001bs butterfat 11 One cow produced 539.41bs of butterfat. Forty-one herds were tested eight times or more. The highest herd average was a herd of 20 cows, with an average of 508.31bs butterfat. The lowest herd average was a herd of 40 cows which averaged 230.71bs butterfat. Seven herds averaged more than 4001bs to the cow. Seven average from 350 to 400'lbs. One herd of 69 cows averaged 400.4 lbs and one of 40 cows averaged 414.3. This summary shows a steady advance in certain heids, but little in certain others. We would be very pleased to receive similar reports from some of our New Zealand Testing Associations for publication in Advance, as we feel convinced they would be of great interest to our readers.

No. of Herd No. of Cows Av. fat iCows Over 300 400 500 lbs lbs lbs 1 18 291.2 10 — — 2 6 428.8 6 2 2 3 12 342.3 10 2 — 4 40 230.7 2 —• — 5 65 241.2 9 — — 6 46 257.7 9 — — 7 39 272.5 11 1 — 8 41 323.2 24 5 1 9 20 294.7 12 — — 10 12 383.3 11 5 — 11 41 239.9 2 — — 12 35 325.5 21 4 2 13 52 407.9 48 26 5 14 €6 425.4 64 37 12 15 35 354.0 23 12 — 16 11 382.7 10 2 — 17 59 321.4 37 10 1 18 46 342.2 27 13 3 19 32 322:6 18 5 — 20 7 343.8 6 1 1 21 10 335.2 5 1 — 22 26 390.7 21 13 4 23 37 340.7 24 8 1 24 32 391,5 25 14 3 25 20 508.3 20 17 16 26 26 363.7 21 6 2 27 24 434.0 23 18 4 28 71 305.8 36 9 — 30 3 360.9 2 1 — 31 69 400.4 67 32 6 32 91 297.3 44 6 — 33 22 338.1 15 4 — 34 19 270.7 6 — — 35 49 332.2 34 6 — 37 59 338.6 43 11 — 38 11 293.5 6 1 — 39 40 414.3 37 23 3 40 60 274.1 • 14 2 — 41 53 300.0 26 4 —