QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF MILK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 4

QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF MILK.

The question whether the quality of cows' milk is influenced by the quantity yielded has been the subject of investigation by Professor Wilson, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, whose report has been published in pamphlet form as part of their scientific proceedings by the Royal Dublin Society. Professor Wilson has made an exhaustive analysis of the milk records published by the Ayrshire Cattle Society, and finds, the quality of milk is in no way dependent on the quantity. It is a common belief among dairy farmers that heavy milking-cows are likely to give milk of poor quality, and that rich milk will be obtained from cows whose yieM is small. Professor Wilson has examined the records of nearly 3000 cows, and has classified them according to the quantity and quality of the milk produced. From the table which he has compiled it is at once evident that yield has no influence on the quality. The cows are divided into four groups, according to the quality of milk they yielded, and in every group the proportion of the cows that give poor, medium arid rich milk is very much the same; so that with these Ayrshire cattle at- least—and there is no reason to suppose it would be different with other breeds—the" conclusion that quantity and quality of milk are independent of each other- : is justified.