BEER BOOSTS COWS’ OUTPUT
PARIS, March 17. French peasants are giving their cows beer to drink to increase milk production. In letters to the French agricultural journal, “Paysan du Midi,” peasants claim up to 10 per cent, increase in milk output and richness since their cows started drinking beer. One Normandy peasant explains that'he gives each cow about 01b of reject beer.each day with its normal feed ration. He says that before he gave his cows beer, each cow yielded 730 gallons of milk a year. Now they are giving an average of 808 gallons a year each. “The cows seem much more contented, too,” he adds. Milk is one of the most precious commodities In France to-day. In Paris, it is available without coupons, only for children. Milk is available also on the black market at high prices. But there is no shortage of beer, which is watery and amongst the worst brews in the world.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 146, 2 April 1948, Page 6
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