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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1372, 27 March 1923, Page 7

The bull is half the herd—how often we hear this statement, (t Is. we konw, earnestly made, but it may be somewhat unthinkingly. A good bull is undoubtedly essential in any herd, but his value may often be over-rated, and we know full well that a bad bull may lie all the herd, but when the results of breeding are studied to the closest, the more obvious becomes the fact, thai the credit that is in many cases given to the sire mould in the greater part be given to the dam. Attention, quite rightly, is always directed to the male ancestry of the dairy bull; but of equal, if not of greater importance is the female descsnt of the dam; it is considered by many authorities that the transmission of the aptitude for, production, the percentage of butter-fat: and the temperament of the cow are especially the attributes of the female. If the results of breeding are closely studied, the careful observer will very assuredly extend greater attention to the females of (lie her'!.—Southland News. During Easter the young women and young men of (lie South Auckland Methodist Bible (''lasses are holding camps at Hamilton—the young women at (he High School and the young men at Hillcrest School. The Baptists and Presbyterians are also lidding camps iin Hamilton at the same time. It is estimated that altogether there will be 1000 Bible class members in camp at Hamilton at Easter,