TEST OF MILK
efficient stripping It is. Well known that (be strippings are the richest portion of the milk, and that careful and clficient stripping of the row is essential in order to obtain the maximum test. Fore-milk contains least fat of all, the milk becoming progressively richer as milking proceeds. I'or example, it has been found in a typical case that the fore-milk contained only 0.5 per cent fat, while the strippihgs tested 8 per cent, the average test of all the milk being 4.5 per cent. I'reqiientlv strippings may test •is high as 15 per cent and over, in the ease of high-testing cows. Quite apart from the necessity for clean stripping in order to obtain the highest test of the milk, quiet, rapid milking has a .stimulating effect on the cow. In this respect some milkers are more proficient than others, and are to obtain more milk of a higher test than is obt?*:nrwl liiulm* »»flir»ipi;t
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 15
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159TEST OF MILK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 15
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