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This method however would not suit the many customers who insist
on seeing the cows milked and even on obtaining milk from a particular
cow. These purchasers should be informed that they may not be obtaining
milk of satisfactory quality.
There would also be labour considerations as one milker would no longer
be able to include both milkings in his days work, as these men live outside
the Borough.
Samples were next taken at the afternoon milking from each of the 18
cowsheds. Although every effort was made to obtain as representative a
sample as possible, it is never possible to obtain a sample of the bulked milk
of the whole herd owing to the sale of the milk during the milking periods,
so that when an appeal is made for a delivery sample to be taken the sample
may be satisfactory or otherwise as a representative sample of the bulked
milk cannot be obtained.
In these 18 samples the fat varied from 3.85 per cent. to 5.25 per cent.
and the solids-not-fat from 8.15 per cent. to 9.10 per cent., the average
composition of the samples being:—Fat 4.42 per cent., Solids-not-fat 8-64
per cent.