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STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
TABLE 
oie 
WEEKLY MILK YIELD oF S1x Cows MILKED Wi1TH MACHINE, 
! JANUARY 3—MaArcH 6. 
Ookhwnyor | No. of Cow 
0 | SSNe cc | 

Month of 
Lactation 
lst Week 
Pounds 


189.4 
Sy iid, 
144.9 
73.8 
55.4 
67 19 

618.7 





2d Week 
Pounds 
3d Week 
Pounds 
4th Week 
Pounds 



185.0 {198.6 |200.0 
87.1:| 88.3 |-90.8 
143.7 1159.0 )153..6 
(4,9. (4501-75 -0 
56.41 61.3 1) 57.2 
59.0 | 58.2 | 58.6 


606.1 |640.4 |635.2 

5th Week 
Pounds 

196.8 
96.6 
133.6 
80.4 
58.5 
52.4 

618.3 

6th Week 
Pounds 

188.6 
87.9 
138.5 
78.2 
06.6 
48.5 

598.3 

Calculated shrinkage 6.8 per cent. per month. 

Wth Week 
Pounds 

19 faa 
91.4 
13 Iy7 
80.9 
O7.9 
AT .5 
616.6 


8th Week 
Pounds 

187.5 
erent 
113.6 
80.4 
00.2 
43.3 

562.0 

9th Week 
Pounds 
185.0 
83.9 
98.8 
HOE 
53.6 
32.8 

530.1 
TaBLE 37.—The yield of six cows milked continuously 
with the milking machine for nine weeks was 2809.5 pounds 
in the first half of the trial and 2621.1 in the second half. 
The difference in yield is equivalent to a shrinkage of 6.8 
per cent. per month.* The average period of lactation was 
the eighth month. 
* Bulletin 26, Storrs Experiment Station, p. 25. 
Henry’s Feeds and Feeding, p. 408. 
Bulletin 210, Geneva Experiment Station, p. 384. 
