HERD-TESTING.
A STRIKING LESSON FROM THE WORK OF THE PAST ■ SEASON. :
The two pictures of cows on the following pages afford a striking objectlesson of the value of herd-testing work. On form. there is little to choose between them, and many a dairy-farmer would find it a difficult matter to decide which of the two was the better milker. Yet the year’s test has demonstrated that No. 1 produced more than double the amount of butterfat of No. 2." '.The relative value of the two beasts is thus fully six to one, for the cost of production would be about the same in each case. The cows illustrated are not extreme . types—there were a number of better cows than No. 1 and many worse than. No. 2 in. the model testing associations —but are medium animals to be found in the majority, of herds in the Dominion. The best cow of those, tested under the association scheme gave 11,740 lb. of milk and 507 lb. of' fat." The two instances are sufficient to demonstrate the vast sum of money being lost to the dairy-farmers of New Zealand by the milking of unprofitable cows. -
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 3, Issue 5, 15 November 1911, Page 368
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193HERD-TESTING. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 3, Issue 5, 15 November 1911, Page 368
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