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Variations in Amount of Milk and Percent of Fat in the Milk from Different Quarters of the Cow's Udder

Department of Dairy Husbandry, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas

ABSTRACT

Facts concerning the secretion of milk are becoming of more and more interest to the dairy cattle breeder. Variations in the percentage of fat in the milk are of especial importance. The object of this paper is to present a rather striking fact bearing on this subject, which may with further accumulation of data contribute to more knowledge regarding milk secretion. This data was obtained in connection with some experimental work being done at the Kansas Agricultural College regarding milk secretion.

Previous work in regard to the percentage of fat from the various quarters, was published by Beach in Storrs Report 1904, page 132. In this work only one milking was used and no attempt was made to determine the permanency of the variations. The results did show that when a large number of cows were considered, there was practically no difference in the percent of fat from the various quarters.