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THE fifth annual report of the Hannah Dairy Research Institute describes the work being carried out at Kirkhill, Ayr, and its commercial and practical applications. The chairman of the Council of the Institute is Sir Robert S. Rait, principal of the University of Glasgow, who succeeded the late Sir Donald MacAlister. The work of the Institute has received increasingly wide recognition as shown by the requests received for its publications from all over the world. At home, the advice of the Institute is frequently sought in solving various practical dairying problems. Work has been carried out on the relative nutritive value of different proteins for milk production, on methods of eradication of bovine tuberculosis and the means by which the risk of milk-borne disease can be reduced to negligible proportions, and on the production of condensed and evaporated milks and canned cream. It is of interest to note that the basis of the Institute's experimental eradication scheme of bovine tuberculosis, namely, the provision of free tuberculin-testing and free advice to owners of dairy herds, has been recommended by the Committee on Cattle Diseases, Economic Advisory Council. The results of the experimental scheme have clearly demonstrated the feasibility of effecting a marked reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis amongst dairy cattle. The Institute appeals for funds to wipe out the present indebtedness and to provide an endowment fund which will produce an income of £2,000 a year.
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Hannah Dairy Research Institute. Nature 134, 1003 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/1341003a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1341003a0