THE MILKING HOURS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 8

THE MILKING HOURS.

DANISH EXPERIMENTS. . The report of the Royal Agricultural Laboratory, according to a Danish writer, tells about experiments in milking cows two or three times a day, and the'short summary reads:— "As regards the', question whether to milk twice or tlireo times a day; seven experiments have bean made, its a main result may be mentioned that with cows which average 28 to 3Ub. daily, we got on an, average 1.751b. more milk when, milking three times a day (nearly G per cent, more) than when only milking twice. The hours of milking three times were 4 a.m., 10.45 a.m., and G p.m., and, when milking t.wice, about twelve hours between (4 to 4 or 5 to 5). '

"Milking .oftener did not show any, appreciable change in the fat percentage, but where the feed was not liberal, it has affected the condition of the cows, making them lose a little in weight; yet this loss is so small as to be of no great importance. "The experiment does not enlighten the question of the influence which a more frequent milking might possibly have in the long run-when started on heifers on their milking capacity." It is suggosted that possibly the results might have been more favourable to the frequent milking if it liad been carried out more regularly, with an liiiterval of just eight hours, at least on the farm where the milking was most irregular, having intervals of 6J,' BJ, and 11 -hours, the increase was the least. It is also remarked that if tho result is lower than thait obtained in practice sliowni by the milk records which is usually claimed to bo about 10 per cent., it must be remembered that in. these expsriraents tho various groups were fed aliko iii the same periods; unless this is done there is.danger of crediting the more frequent .milking with ail increase due.to •the better'feeding, which as a rule follows the sreater yield.

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