HERD-TESTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 June 1930, Page 6

HERD-TESTING.

DOMINION CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) HAMILTON, Monday. The annual conference of the Dominion Group Herd Testing Federation was held here to-day, delegates from all parts of the Dominion being present.

The president, Air D. Fulton and executive —Alcssrs. G. R. Herron (Southland), J. Parline (Canterbury), G. 11. Bell (Taranaki), W. Dougal (Dannevirke), P. W. Hill (Bargaville) and AV. J. Law (Bay of Plenty)—were re-elected. Alessrs. Fulton, Herron, Bell and Hill were appointed to represent the federation on the Dominion central executive.

Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, addressed the conference. Ho said he regarded the group herd testing movement as one of the most important ever inaugurated for the benefit of dairying industry. A number of important remits were considered. The main point of the conference consisted in the consideration pf a model set of Tules drawn up with the object of making the work of group herd testing uniform throughout New Zealand.

Mr D. Pulton, lil Ins annual address, said that in the 1021-22 Season, 45,504 COWS were under tfist. This season, approximately three hundred thousand were under test. The great ecect of herd testing was seen in the fact that whereas the average production per cow in the Dominion at the end of the 1921-22 season was estimated at 1751b5, it was confidently anticipated that the average for the past season w r ould resach 2201b5. They could look forward with confidence to the day near fit hand when the objective of the federation would be obtained—-three hundred pounds of butterfat per cow.