CITY MILK

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26814, 20 August 1952, Page 5

CITY MILK

Sir, —Sixteen calves fed raw milk forge ahead in a weight-gaining competition with 16 calves fed pasteurised milk, winning by an average weight gain of 15.81 b each above their opponents. Away to a flying start in life with an average weight gain of 27.41 b each above their opponents, 10 calves fed raw milk prove its superiority with 10 calves fed pasteurised milk in a further test. Both experiments covered a period of six monQis. The purpose was to determine the effect of commercial pasteurisation on the nutritive value of milk as determined by experiments on calves conducted by the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, and published by the National Institute for Research in Dairying (University of Reading), Reading England.—Yours, etc., JOHN BURBRIDGE. August 13, 1952. [“Numerous controlled experiments in recent years have shown that under practical conditions there is no significant difference in the nutritive value of raw and pasteurised milk for either animals or human beings,” said an officer of the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture to whom this letter was referred.]