Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 073
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134 MILK RECORDS. Name and Address. Body Represented. Mr Arthur R. Wannop, B.Sc., B.Eng., 415 Union Street, Aberdeen Professor J. Hendrick, Marischal College, Aberdeen Mr J. F. Tocher, D.Sc., 41!; Union Street, Aberdeen The North of Scotland College of Agri— culture. Mr John Forster, Mains of Larg, New Luce . } Mr W. Cassels Jack, Robiesland, Lanark . Mr A. B. Fowler, Ph.D., B.Sc., Kirkhill, Ayr Mr Norman C. \Vright, M.A., Ph.D., Kirkhill, Ayr Lord Rowallan, Rowallan, Kilmarnock . . Mr John Speir, 81 Hope Street, Glasgow . Sir Hugh Shaw-Stewart, Bt., K.C.B., Ardgowan, Inverkip Lt.-Col. W. Guy Shaw-Stewart, Ardgowan, Inverkip Animal Diseases Research Association. The Hannah Dairy Re- search Institute. Co-opted Members. Chairman—Col. W. T. R. Houldswortli. The following were the principal members of the staff :— Secretary and Treasurer—Mr John Howie. Superintendent—Mr William Stevenson, B.Sc., N.D.A., N.D.D. Assistant Superintendent—Mr Percy H. Hart. SCHEME OF OFFICIAL MILK RECORDS. ADMINISTRATION. In 1939, as in previous years, the scheme of official milk records was administered by the Association through local milk recording societies. The grant from the Treasury, obtained through the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, was continued in 1939 on the same conditions as in the previous year. The amount authorised was £2900, compared with £2800 for 1938. MILK RECORDS. 135 Grants were allocated to local societies on the following scale :— 1. Societies testing at intervals of not more than twenty-one days :— (a) The hire of the necessary milk-testing appliances free of annual charge, the society to upkeep the apparatus in good condition. (b) An annual grant of 8s. 6d. per member towards the cost of surprise check tests. 2. Societies testing at intervals of from twenty-two to twenty-eight days :— (a) The hire of the necessary milk-testing appliances free of annual charge, the society tO upkeep the apparatus in good condition. (b) An annual grant of 7s. per member towards the cost of surprise check tests. During the latter part of 1938 and the earlier months of 1939 every effort was made to obtain new members for local societies throughout the various dairying districts of Scotland, and 96 definite applications were received. But for various reasons, such as members disposing of their dairy herds or removing from their farms, &c., there were as usual a con- siderable number of resignations. All the local societies which operated in 1938 continued in 1939. The Central and South Ayrshire Society, with seven circuits, found it necessary, owing to increase in member- ship, to form an eighth circuit. Also, the Dumfriesshire Society, with three circuits, had to form a fourth; and the Machars Society, with one circuit, a second. The number Of recorders’ circuits in 1939 was 47, three more than in the previous year. The number of herds officially tested was 903, and the number of cows officially tested, 41,058, an increase of 32 herds and 2648 cows from the previous year, and the largest number of herds and of cows tested in the history of the Association. |
| Title | Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 073 |
