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The influence of the addition of calcium carbonate to a ration low in lime on the appetite and digestibility of the food in swine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. E. Evans
Affiliation:
(School of Agriculture, Cambridge.)

Extract

(1) Animals on a calcium-deficient diet suffer periodically from loss of appetite though the ration is in every other respect satisfactory.

(2) The results of twenty-two digestion trials show no enhanced effect on the digestibility of the organic constituents of the food on adding calcium carbonate to a lime-deficient ration.

In conclusion, I wish to express my thanks to Prof. T. B. Wood, F.R.S., for giving me the necessary facilities to carry out the work; to Mr H. R. Davidson, M.A., for placing the experimental animals at my disposal and also to Dr H. E. Woodman for his active interest and supervision at all stages of the work.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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References

1 Marshall's Physiol. of Reproduction, p. 524.