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A Study of the Bacterial Content of the Fore Milk of Cows

Department of Bacteriology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

ABSTRACT

It has been shown by certain investigators that the fore milk has a higher bacterial count than the middle milk. Little information seems to be available on the number of streams which should constitute the fore milk. This work has, therefore, been outlined with the hope of throwing a little more light on this subject.

Trout (10) using the first three to five streams as the fore milk found an average of 3,900 bacteria per cubic centimeter. The remainder of the milk showed a count of 890 per cubic centimeter. Harding and Wilson (5) reported the average bacterial count based on 1,230 samples from 78 different cows to be 428 bacteria per cubic centimeter. The samples were obtained at the close of the milking. Copeland and Olsen (4) determined the number of bacteria in milk from each quarter of the udder of 40 cows, the samples being taken after approximately one-third of the milk had been drawn.