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THE belief that the rate of milk secretion declines with time during the interval between successive milkings is based on an observed increase from thrice daily and a decrease from once daily milking over normal twice daily milkings, and on Edwards's1 calculations of secretion-rates in milking intervals of different length. Turner2 recently questioned Edwards's conclusions on the grounds of the regression of residual on total milk yield and suggested that the secretion-rate does not decrease until after twenty hours. On the other hand, Bailey, Clough and Dodd3 claim to have re-established that milk secretion rate does decrease with time.
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Edwards, J., J. Agric. Sci., 40 (1950).
Turner, H. G., Aust. J. Agric. Res., 4, 118 (1953).
Bailey, G. L., Clough, P. A., and Dodd, F. H., Nature, 173, 404 (1953).
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ELLIOTT, G., BRUMBY, P. Rate of Milk Secretion with Increasing Interval between Milking. Nature 176, 350–351 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176350a0
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