COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT'S POSITION. Replying to a communication sent by Mr G. Thorburn, secretary of the Raumati Co-op,Tative Dairy Company, on matters relating to cow-testing, Mr, W. Singleton, of the Dairying Division of the Agricultural Department, says: — " So far as the subsidising of a Cow-testing Association is concerned, we find we have now in hand all the work we can undertake for the ensuing'season. The associations which our Department is controlling are in districts where we have a resident dairy instructor. We have only our butter and cheese instructors available for this work of testing, and we find it necessary to have the associations with which we are directly connected in close proximity to their headquarters, so as to save time.
"Regarding the formation of an association, we, have little to add to what appeared in the Agricultural Journal of June 15th. Where a number of factories can co-operate and form a cow-test-ing association of 300 cows, they can engage a testing officer solely for the testing of the samples, etc., and put the clerical work under the supervision of a dairy factory secretary. In this way the testing and figuring would probably cost in the neighbourhood of 2s per cow, outside the cost of bottles, balance, dipper, and box. With a smaller number it is sometimes possible to arrange with the factory manager to do the testing and with the factory secretary to do the figuring.
" The supplies for cow-testing which were in New Zealand at the beginning of this season have been drawn upon very largely, and stocks are exhausted so far as boxes and balances are concerned. Your members would have to await importations from Australia, and it is not altogether certain that Australia will have sufficient balances offering. In any case your first-test would b. so late this spring thai it would b? impossible to yet figures which would be a .true criterion of the cow/;' production this season. Unci the circumstances it might b ■ bettei to leave the matover until, ~ay, June, when a d start could be made for the n ng
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Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 42, 8 September 1911, Page 4
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