KIND TREATMENT.
APPLIED TO DAIRY COWS. Visits to members of the cowtesting associations this season have convinced Mr W. M. Singleton, of the Agricultural Department, that a herd of heavy-pro-ducing cows means not only good cows, but that good feed and careful handling are indispensable. He went among a herd this season with the owner, and saw
that the cows considered , him so much their friend, that many of them stopped grazing and flocked around him. These cows were on good milk-producing feed, and the herd is one of the best tested this season. A number of herds contain cows of equal quality, but owing to unkindly treatment and insufficient feed of the right description the yield is much inferior to that of this herd. Kindly treatment has a cash value, and the best yields cannot be produced without it. Cow-testing demonstrates the value of good feed, and induces kindly treatment. A dairy farmer is fined in pounds, shillings, and pence for every unkind act of his or of his employee towards his dairy cows. Could we only see the sum these fines amount to in a season (says Mr Singleton) there would be better cows and more prosperous dairymen.
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Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 48, 29 September 1911, Page 4
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200KIND TREATMENT. Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 48, 29 September 1911, Page 4
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