Experimental researches on the food of animals, and the fattening of cattle : with remarks on the food of man, based upon experiments undertaken by order of the British Government / by Robert Dundas Thomson.

  • Thomson, Robert Dundas, 1810-1864.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Experimental researches on the food of animals, and the fattening of cattle : with remarks on the food of man, based upon experiments undertaken by order of the British Government / by Robert Dundas Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER V. INFLUENCE OF GRASS WHEN USED AS DIET. TABLES OF MILK AND BUTTER PRODUCED BY GRASS DURING FOURTEEN DAYS. COMPOSITION OF THE MILK. AMOUNT OF FOOD CONSUMED. OF THE SOURCE OF THE BUTTER IN THE GRASS. AMOUNT OF WAX IN THE FOOD. COMPOSITION OF BUTTER. MODE OF PRESERVING BUT- TER FRESH FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. IMPROBABILITY OF WAX BEING CONVERTED INTO BUTTER. ON THE NATURE OF GRASS AND HAY AS FOOD.—ANALYSIS OF HAY. GRASS LOSES NUTRITIVE MATTER WHEN CONVERTED INTO HAY IN THIS COUNTRY. TABLE OF FALL OF RAIN. PROCESS OF ARTIFICIAL HAYMAKING SUGGESTED. ANALYSIS OF STEM AND SEEDS OF RYE-GRASS. IMPORTANCE OF MAKING HAY BEFORE GRASS BEGINS TO SEED. Immediately before the commencement of this ex- periment, the cattle had been grazing, and were brought a distance of about forty miles by railway ; a circum- stance which may account for several irregularities and anomalies in the immediate subsequent history of the animals as derivable from the tables :—