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Show HOLSTEIN BREEDERS TO TEST PURE BREEDS FOR PRODUCTION testing for herd improvement regis- j try will be changed to the bimonthly bi-monthly basis, with six one-day (21 hour) tests each with preliminary milking required during the 12 months' period. Daily milk weigh will not be required. Herds already on test January 1 may change to the bi-monthly basis at the time or j may finish the year on the present basis at the option of tife owner. : All herds starting in test for herJ improvement registry on January 1 or later will start under the new rules: If cows are on test for advanced registry in either the ten-months or yearly divisions, thev may be ) changed to the bi-monthly basis. If the decision is made to change ! the superintendent of official testing test-ing and the college should be advised ad-vised in advance ao that schedules for supervisors may be prepared. If the regular test is in December-, and the owners dealre to change to the bi-monthly basis at once, the January test may be omitted and the next regular test would be in February, then April and so through the year. This change is entirely optional with the dairy men and they may continue on the regular monthly basis. It is to be remembered that all tests under the bi-monthly plan will be two-day tests with preliminary milking, classification C included. In herd improvement test all herds starting with January 1 or later will start on the bi-monthly basis. If the herd is on test now, it may finish the herd test year under present rules if desired, or a change to the new basis may be . made. Herds tested in December and changing to the bi-monthly basis may omit the January test if desired and start in with February Febru-ary on the cvery-other-month basis with the 24-hour test and preliminary prelimin-ary milking. By PROF. GKOKGE B. CAtNK i All breeders of uure bred Holsttin cattle in Utah should be interested in the changes recently made by the directors of th Holstein Frie-sian Frie-sian association. At this time all bred associations are making a determined de-termined effort to get a large number of pure bred cattle tested for production as a means of eliminating elim-inating more of the poorer class of pure bred cattle that are much too common in the herds. Thesa cows are kept because they are pure bred and have registration papers rather than because they are efficient ef-ficient producers of milk and butler but-ler fat. The grade cows in the herds of the United States arc selected only upon a production basis. They mu3t be economical, profi tabic producers produc-ers or the breeders sell them to the butcher. The fact that dairy cows arc selected largely on one of the two ways mentioned above makes the production records of the grade cows very near that of the pure bred. . Holsteins are the most popular bred of cattle in most of the dairy j sections of Utah, yet the breeders are not keeping up with the Jersey breeders in official test work. At the piesent time there are many more Jersey cows being officially tested for production than there are Holsteins. Every good breeder breed-er of pure bred cattle should take advantage of the new rules adopted by the Holstein association and start his herd on some type of official of-ficial testing1. Advanced Registry Beginning with January 1,. 1930, records may be accepted for advanced ad-vanced registry in both the ten-months' ten-months' and yearly divisions based on bi-monthly tests, that is, where tests are made every other month instead of every month as at present. pres-ent. Each official test must be a two-day test (48 hours) with preliminary pre-liminary milking, whether in classification classi-fication A. B or C. Owners testing test-ing in classification C and desiring to change to the bi-monthly basis take notice that the one-day test will not be accepted. Herd Improvement Regrstry Eeginning with January 1, 1930, |