Show Frequent Milking for Increased Production In the Ule Journal ot of DaIry Science appears appears ap- ap pears a study by Professors Ragsdale Turner and rody Brody of the University of MIssouri on milk mUk production and the effect thereon of milking at various various va- va rious perIods Four cows were used In the ripen ripen- meat ment and they were milked at Intervals Inter Inter- vals ranging from one to thIrty six hours The deductions are that the oftener the cow was milked the greater great great- er would be her total production or to use the words ot of the authors the greater grenter the Ule amount ot of milk mUk accumulated hated In the udder or the longer the Interval between the less t the speed of milk secretIon In unit time It If the production of milk during the first hour be taken as per cent the rate ot of secretion durIng each lag Ing hour Is approximately 95 5 per cent ot of the precedIng hour Therefore It if a cow produced 17 pounds milk when milked twIce dally 1 if milked three times dally she would produce pounds and If milked tour four times dally daily the amount would be 20 pounds Cows milked three times dally would produce per cent of the amount they produced when milked twIce a aday day and It if milked three times dally they would produce per cent ot of the amount they Uley produced on twIce day milking |