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1 194 - Score Cards for Simmenthal Cattle. — Sec this Bulletin, No. 1158. 



1 195 - Establishment of a Herd-Book for the Caracu Breed of Brazil. — /! Esianda, 



4th Year, No. 5, pp. 147-149. Porto Alegre, May 1916. 



A society has been founded for the Brazilian Caracu Cattle (i) in the 

 State of Sao-Paulo, Brazil, under the patronage of the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture. It is open to all breeders living in the State of Sao-Paulo. 



In the Caracu Herd-Book can be entered. 



i) Pure bred animals, intended for breeding, belonging to a member, 

 and having been passed by the Committee of Registration. 

 2) Offspring of parents already entered. 



Such animals are registered onl}' pro\nsionally. They will be definitely 

 entered only they have reached the prescribed age and then only after a 

 fresh examination. 



The registrations are free. The Commission of Registration nominated 

 by the Societ}^ will visit the farms of members twice a year in order to 

 examine pure bred animals for registration in the Caracu Herd-Book. The 

 Commission is composed of two live-stock experts of the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture, an official veterinary- surgeon and three practical breeders elected 

 from amongst the members. 



Members must communicate the birth of calves from pedigree animals 

 not more than two months after calving ; when pedigree animals change 

 hands the names of buyer and seller must be given. The death of registered 

 animals must be notified. 



For every registered animal a certified pedigree may be obtained signed 

 by the president and secretary of the Society and endorsed by the 

 Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Sao-Paulo. All the animals definitely 

 registered in the Caracu Herd-Book must bear the mark of the Society 

 and their respective numbers. 



A revised edition of the herd-book will be published every year by 

 the Society.- 



1 1 96 - Dairying on the River Murray Areas. — i^.^ne, g., in The journal of Agriculture of 



South Australia, Vol. XIX, No. 12, pp. 1043-1046. Adelaide, July igi6. 



In a paper read before the Conference of River Murray Branches of 

 the Agricultural Bureau on the development of milk production in the arid 

 and irrigated parts of this region, the writer deals fully with the problem 

 of the production of forage in the summer months and emphasises the 

 importance of ensilage in the feeding of dairy cattle. 



According to the writer it is only by the preservation of forage in the 

 silo that milk production can be successfully undertaken on farms deprived 

 of irrigation. Otherwise the advantages to be obtained during the period 

 of the year when green forage is available are nullified by the losses to which 

 agriculture is exposed in the dry months, when the production of forage is 

 impossible withoiit irrigation. Milk production in areas which are semiarid 

 or where the rains are irregular, must henceforward be considered as closely 



(i) See R. October 1916, No. 1093. 



