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Cod liver oil in the winter feeding of milch cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Jack Cecil Drummond ,
Katharine Hope Coward ,
John Golding ,
James Mackintosh  and
Sylvester Solomon Zilva
Jack Cecil Drummond
Affiliation:
(Beit Memorial Research Fellow) From the Biochemical Department, Institute of Physiology, University College, London
Katharine Hope Coward
Affiliation:
(Beit Memorial Research Fellow) From the Biochemical Department, Institute of Physiology, University College, London
John Golding
Affiliation:
From tlie National Institute of Dairy Research, Reading
James Mackintosh
Affiliation:
From tlie National Institute of Dairy Research, Reading
Sylvester Solomon Zilva
Affiliation:
From the Biochemical Department, Lister Institute, London
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1. Further confirmation is presented in support of the relationship between the presence of vitamin A in the milk and its supply in the food.

2. The influence of the supply of the vitamin A in the food on the quantity or fat content of the milk is uncertain, in any case it appears to be much less than that produced by turning the cows out to grass.

3. The increase of the vitamin A-content of the milk produced by feeding cod liver oil is not accompanied by a rise in the lipochrome pigments as is the case when the cows are turned out to grass.

4. Up to 4 ounces per day of a good quality cod liver oil produced no fishy flavour in the milk or butter of one cow, but further experiments appear desirable.

5. Stall feeding even when ensilage was used causes the winter milk to be lower in vitamin-content than summer milk; this is mitigated by such restricted grass feeding as is possible in the south of England.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1923 , pp. 144 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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