THE LATEST IN COW-TESTING

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5157, 14 November 1912, Page 3

THE LATEST IN COW-TESTING

The “dairy record centre” is the name that has been given to the newest scheme for the advancement of cow-testing in Canada. An expert is employed, who gives his whole time to a limited district. He is required to provide himself with a horse and gig and to got into touch with the farmers within a reasonable radius of a common centre. It is his business to encourage as many as possible of these farmers to weigh the milk of individual cows and to take samples for testing. He must then see that the samples are properly tested, or do it himself if satisfactory arrangements cannot be made to have it done at the local cheese factory or creamery. Once a year a complete census of all the herds is taken with full particulars as to breeding, feeding and means taken to improve the average production. With this work carried on for a number of years in the same locality a mass of information will be secured which ought to be valuable and lead to good results. Six of these dairy record centres were established in the spring of 1911; three in Ontario, two in Quebec, and one in the Maritime Provinces. During the past few months, eight additional men have been employed for ns many new centres, and supervisors have been appointed in New Brunswick and in Prince Edward Island.