New Use For Juice

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 39

New Use For Juice

-- M®*- J. O.. HICKMAN, of Hertfordshire, England, has been carrying out interesting experiments with the irradiation of milk, and finds it an eminently practical proposition applied for a few seconds before milking to the udders of ‘the cows, bacteria in the milk is greatly reduced. Subsequent irradiation still further reduces the bacteria content, enabling the milk to be kept fresh for a much longer period, and at the same time adding to it the valuable vitamin D, the anti-rickets vitamin, without destroying the equally valuable vitamin A. The milk ‘is run at a certain rate over an ordinary cooler whilst it is subjected to the rays from a mercury vapour’ lamp. Fifteen seconds’ exposure has been found to yield the best results. The experiment has been carried on for nearly three years and.is estimated to cost no more than a 4d. per gallon. Litters of pigs, immediately after weaning, have been subjected to the rays of a Tungsten are lamp, and have grown so rapidly that it was possible to market them four .weeks earlier: than pigs reared in the ordinary way. At one period their weight in.creased by as much as from 24lb. to 3lb. each day. PP PP PAPPAPPAPPPAPPPPPPPPEP PD Pl dd tbh PPPPPPPLP PPP LD Dt ti nbn . PPL LDL EL EEL DELLE PPP PLP LPPPPL PP PPPD PPP PP + PPLPL LLL LILLIE L LID LDL LILI LLL PELL LLP LN LL LLL LILI LILES LEI PES PLINY Terry PIPL LPP LLP LAD IP PLP PP PPP PPP PP PP PPP PPD Pa pdt PELL LPPP PPL LLL LL LLL LIL PIPED L LL I PILLS ¢