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BOOK REVIEW

ANIMAL NUTRITION RESEARCH AT THE ROWE’IT RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1970

The Rowett Research Institute. founded in 1912, continues to produce high class work in the wide field of animal nutrition. Older veterinarians will know well the name John Boyd Orr-the first director who retired in 1995, became the first. Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and as Lord Boyd Orr was the doyen among nutritionalists. His book Minerals in Pastures and their Relation to Animal Nutrition in 1929 was the beginning of a long series of most valuable publications from the Rowett Institute. A Commemorative volume to mark the 50th anniversary, Progress in Nutrition and Allied Sciences was published in 1963 by Oliver and Boyd of Edinburgh. My only acquaintance with Boyd Orr was at the International Veterinar Congress in London 1949 when his fine address incluc?ed “Veterinary Medi- cine is one of the few branches of science which can make rapid advances without the danger of doing more harm than good”.

The present Director, Dr K. L. Blaxter, delivered the Wooldridge Memorial Lecture at the British Veterinary Association meeting at Stirling in 1973 - I commend it to you. It is “Servicing the Animal Industry” and is in Veterinary Record 93 ( 2 ) .

Each annual report from the Rowett Institute has a brief historical introduction, a list of publications, and summaries of current research; the greater part of considerable interest to the veterinarian who is con- cerned with the nutrition of farm animals. Only some highNghts can be noted here.

The 1970 report (Volume 26) records the composi- tion of triglycerides of animal tissues, metabolism of phytol, long-chain fatty acids in sheep, plasma-albumin in lactating ewes, colostral whey proteins, milk specific proteins, copper complexes in sheep including poisoning, copper-molybdenum interaction, zinc deficiency, DNA synthesis, culture of rumen bacteria, rumen ciliate ecology, rumen metabolism in red deer, hill sheep and reindeer, rumen bacteria in cattle fed urea and molasses, post-ruminal digestion in sheep, establishment

of rumen bacteria in the rumen of germ-free lambs, sodium acrylate and enteric bacterial flora in pigs, penicillin and the flora of the large intestine of the guinea pig, biological treatment of farm effluents, pro- pionate metabolism by rumen epithelium, movement of ruminant stomach during sucking, pregnancy diagnosis in sheep, parturient hypocalcaemia, calcitonin, studies on red deer, histochemistry of leucocytes, synchronisa- tion of mating and parturition in rats, hypertrophy of the liver in ewes, rumenitis after feeding barley, normal healing and rate of cell-turnover in the small intestine of sheep, bone marrow lesions in sheep, scours in pigs, streptokinase in experimental infections in pigs, iron compounds and resistance to clostridial infections, kale anaemia, 7-CHM-12-MBA and embryopathic activity in pigs, emotional stress in sheep, thyroid hormones and feed utilisation, ammonia absorption in ruminants, metabolism of feed yeast, bacterial mucopeptide in sheep, plant proteins for non-ruminants, microbial and fungal protein, veterinary investigations (Oesophagmto- mum in pigs, brucellosis ring testing, salmonellosis in sheep, minimal-disease pigs, photosensitisation in lambs, fungal oestrogen from Fusurium), cattle experiments (partition of dietary energy, foulin of pastures, pro- tein sources for calves, plastic rou&age) sheep experi- ments (protein via the oesophageal groove, treatment of straw with sodium hydroxide, weaning and utilisa- tion of barley diet. urea for young lambs, performance of Finnish Landrace crossbreds), pig experiments (feed intake and lactation, gout, split-feed systems, potassium metabolism, dietary hormones, grass protein).

In each report there are brief review papers; in 1970 there are Aswcts of Renal Function in Ruminants (Scott), and Studies on the Feed Intake of Pregnant Sows (Elsley) .

Copies of the Report may be obtained from the Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Scot- land, at 90P.

H. McL. Gordon

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