HERD TESTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1925, Page 4

HERD TESTING.

SUBSIDY SOUGHT.

MINISTER SYAIPATHETIC.

An increase of -101 b in the average production per cow would represent an increase of £1,000,000 per annum to the income of New Zealand. By increasing, the average from 1801 b to 2501 b, which could be done in six years by group herd testing and calf marking, an increased revenue of at least £6,000,000 per annum would accrue. Such were amongst the claims put forward by Messrs C. M. Hume (general manager) and R. M. Somerville (a director), of the New Zealand Co-operative Herd Testing Association, yesterday, in asking the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Nosworthy) to grant a subsidy in order that herd testing might be made general throughout the Dominion. In reply, the Minister said he wished it to be clearly understood that he was not antagonistic in any way to the group system of testing, as carried out by the Herd Testing Association. He had realised for a number of years past that some definite scheme should be brought in to improve the average production throughout; New Zealand. Finance, however, was the deciding factor. He»had .already agreed to the subsidising of laboratories at WallaeevJlle and Hawera. He would, look carefully into the matter with qp unbiassed mind, and-, would db what lie possibly ' could to ' meet.. jthe. requests of the depuattien. )