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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 20 No. 11 719-721
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A Comparison of Standard Plate Counts and Methylene Blue Reduction Tests Made on Raw Milk with Special Reference to Geometric Means1

E. D. Devereux2

Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, East Lansing, Michigan

ABSTRACT

  1. The analysis of data of standard plate counts and methylene blue reduction tests of approximately 1100 samples of raw milk is given.
  2. The range and frequencies of counts are given for each class as well as the geometric mean and standard deviation.
  3. Practically two-thirds of the counts in each class, as determined by the reduction test, were within one standard deviation of the mean of the logarithms and more than 99 per cent of the counts in each class were within three standard deviations of the mean of the logarithms.
  4. The geometric means found for the four different classes of milk were found to be significantly different when a test for significance was applied.
  5. No attempt has been made in this paper to fix the limits (counts) of the four different classes. This paper shows that the geometric means of the methylene blue classes are significantly different. By examining the standard deviations of the means of the logarithms in Table 1 it is seen that the distributions of the geometric means do not overlap.

FOOTNOTES

1 Journal Article No. 290 n.s. from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.

2 The author wishes to take this opportunity to express his gratitude to Associate Professor W. D. Baten of the Mathematics Department of Michigan State College for his assistance in interpreting these data.






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