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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 5, 777-782, Copyright © 1923 by The Rockefeller University Press

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THE EFFECT OF GESTATION ON THE RATE OF DECLINE OF MILK SECRETION WITH THE ADVANCE OF THE PERIOD OF LACTATION

Samuel Brody 1, Arthur C. Ragsdale 1, and Charles W. Turner 1

1 From the Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Missouri, Columbia.

1. Data are presented showing that the course of decline of milk secretion with the advance of the period of lactation in farrow cows follows the course of decline of a monomolecular chemical reaction, that is each month's milk production is a constant percentage of the production of the preceding month (94.77 per cent in the case of the cow under consideration), from which it is inferred that milk secretion is limited by a chemical reaction initiated at parturition, and declining with the decrease of the concentration of the limiting substance as it is transformed into milk.

2. Data are presented showing that the decline in milk secretion due to pregnancy is related to the increase in weight of gestating animals, from which it is inferred that growth of the fetus is in part, at least, responsible for the decline in the milk flow due to the demand of the fetus for nutrients to support its life processes.

Submitted on May 12, 1923


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