MILK RECORDING

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 7

MILK RECORDING

WIH'AT IT MEAN'S TO THE FARMER Mr J. Mackintosh, of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading, gave an addrelss on “The Feeding of Dairy Cows” before the Carmarthenshire Chamber of Agriculture. The Hen. George Coventry presided. In the ensuing discussion, Mr D. D. Williams, Live Stock Officer for Wales, ■said he was sorry to 'find that in Carmarthenshire, where there were nearly 9000 holdings and 50,000 dairy cows —the largest of any county in Wales—the United 'Counties’ Milk Recording Society had not been the Success it ought to be in the county. There were only eighteen people recording, representing something like 300 cows, or 0.6 of the cow population. That was not a satisfactory state of affairs, ft was only by a method of milk recording that a farmer could know the milk: yield, of a. particular cow on any particular day of the year. Mr David Hinds, said that milk cording was all very well for big farmers, but lie and other farmers were able to do that personally and successfully because they were present at the milking and noted the capacity of each cow. If a cow did not do well they eliminated her from the herd. Mr Mackintosh said a man who did not keep the milk records of every cow was like a man with a hole in his pocket because he not know whether a cow was paying him or not.