Bovine power assessed
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) DAVIS (California), Aug. 4. Not only will a cow give you milk, she has the power to boil it for you. And if she had nine friends, they could all heat your house and water system, too. Scientists at the Smith, Kline and French laboratories in Davis, California, say that 10 average cows belch enough methane gas each day to keep a stove, water heater and furnace burning in a small house.
But the experts were not giving details to the annual conference of the American Society on Animal Science a new way to reduce household bills; they were reporting a new feed additive to prevent stomach bacteria in cattle from producing waste methane during digestion.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 11
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