PULPY KIDNEYS IN SHEEP.
That sheep may safely be kept on pro-tein-rich diets is borne out by the results of a striking experiment carried out recently in Cambridge by Dr. J. Stewart, says Mr. H. E. Woodman, in the "Journal" of the British Ministry of Agriculture. In an attempt to deteimine the causes of the condition known us "pulpy kidneys" in sheep, Dr. Stewart kept two wether sheep 011 a diet of linseed cake over a period of about weeks. Each sheep received about 31b of linseed cake daily and no other food of any kind was given. The animals remained in surprisingly good condition throughout the trial, a circumstance whicli was specially commented on by numerous farmers who visited the Cambridge Institute during that season. Moreover, the weight gains of the sheep over the whole period were such as would have been anticipated from a knowledge of the starch equivalent of linseed cake. The animals were slaughtered at the end of the trial, and a post-mortem examination of the kidneys revealed 110 trace of disease.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 27
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