Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 347

(ii) The herds in 39 settlements during the period under review. ÙT3 I* V No. of Settl ments accor ing to their type. Cows. Cost in £P. Calves of one year and over. Cost in £P. Calves und one year. Cost in £P. Bulls. Cost in £P. Total Herd. Total cost of Herd in £P. 15 Small Holding 59,458 Settlements 1,292 41,213 512 10,840 550 5,690 28 1,715 2,382 24 Kvutzoth... 1,247 47,140 419 9,949 386 5,092 35 2,710 2,087 64,891 39 Settlements 2,539 88,353 931 20,789 936 10,782 63 4,425 4,469 124,349 1 (Further details in Table 1.) Note.—In most cases, the cost mentioned in the table is considerably lower than the present cost of cows in the market. As an average standard, £P. 40 is the highest price fetched by a cow. The growth in size of the herds was not equal in all settlements. The reason for this was not a financial one, but rather a local one, e.g., infectious diseases, unsuccessful purchases, etc. The Kvutzoth were the most successful settlements in breeding herds. They started with a nucleus of a herd, and in the course of a few years the size of the herd grew considerably. As an example, we may take the settlement Gneiger. This settlement started in 1922 with three cows and one calf, and continued to purchase single cows up to 1926, so that fourteen head in all were purchased. At present Gneiger possesses fifty cows, forty-three calves and two bulls. A number of milch cows and calves have already been sold by Gneiger to other settlements. (iii) The pedigree of the herds in the above settlements. Arab. Syrian. Dutch. Swiss. Dutch A & Syrian. Dutch & Arab. Sundry. Total. Head. Note. Cows ...... 1 147 257 28 1,638 365 104 2,539 The column ' Sundry ' in¬ Large calves... —- 31 45 1 711 80 63 931 cludes cattle whose pedi¬ Small calves... _ 12 63 13 758 61 27 934 gree could not be ascertained (Further details in Table 2.) The bulls were almost all Dutch, and only in a few isolated cases were the local breed used. 347