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J. Anim Sci. 1949. 8:433-440.
© 1949 American Society of Animal Science
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Special Methods for Rumen Bacterial Studies in the Field1

L. S. Gall2, Wise Burroughs, Paul Gerlaugh and B. H. Edgington

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

  1. Methods for studying the rumen bacteria of cattle and sheep under field conditions are described. The technics of sampling, culturing, and counting the bacteria in the rumen are described and discussed.
  2. Special equipment and procedures needed to carry out these procedures under farm conditions are described.
  3. The values and limitations of the technics employed are discussed.

Footnotes

1 Supported in part by a grant from Swift and Company, Chicago, Illinois.

2 Present address, National Dairy Research Laboratories, Long Island, New York.






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