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A Comparison of Total Milk and Fat Production and Per Cent Fat of a 26- and 24-Hour Test Day^{1, 2, 3,}

Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ABSTRACT

1. Differences in total milk production for a 26- and 24-hour test day are statistically significant, with a higher production of milk, for the 26-hour test day.
   
2. Differences in per cent fat for a 26- and 24-hour test day are statistically significant, with a lower per cent of fat for the 26-hour test day.
   
3. Differences in total fat production for a 26- and 24-hour test day are not statistically significant.
   
4. Dairymen enrolled in D.H.I.A. who anticipate a test day and alter their milking time in order to obtain longer intervals between milkings probably will increase total milk production, decrease the per cent of fat of the milk, and not appreciably influence total fat production.
   

The authors wish to express their thanks to Dr. J. E. Torrie and Mrs. Dorothy Brill for the statistical analyses of these data.

¹ These data were taken from a thesis presented to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin by T. H. Blosser in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.

² The especially designed milking machine used in these studies was made available through the courtesy of the Ben H. Anderson Mfg. Co., Madison, Wis.

³ Published with the approval of the Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station.