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Studies on the Nutritive Value of Milk

II. The Supplementary Value of Inorganic Iron and Copper

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster

ABSTRACT

Ferrous sulfate, ferric citrate, ferric chloride and colloidal ferric oxide were found ineffective in preventing anemia in rats when added to an exclusive whole milk diet. The addition of a small amount of copper (0.16 mgm. daily) as copper sulfate was quite effective. The addition of both copper and iron proved highly-effective in preventing nutritional anemia in rats. This confirms the work of Hart, Steenbock, Waddell, and Elvehjem (5).

The prevention of nutritional anemia in rats fed an exclusive milk diet through the addition of small amounts of copper and iron suggests a method for determining the total nutritive effect (aside from reproduction) of milk produced under various conditions, without the use of a basal ration.