10th Technical Alfalfa Conference Proceedings Held At Reno Nev July 11 1968 With Lists Of References

Author : U. S. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364466520
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Eleventh Technical Alfalfa Conference Proceedings written by U. S. Agricultural Research Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eleventh Technical Alfalfa Conference Proceedings: Held July 29 and 30, 1971, Albany, Calif Green leaves are the world's largest source of protein. Although this protein has excellent nutritional quality, leaves have limited use for monogastric animals because of the presence of indigestible fiber. Scientists have long known that crushing or grinding green plant material to break the cell walls yields a juice containing a high percentage of the plant protein. This laboratory has been interested in this process for many years and basic steps were reported in Chemurgic Digest in 1947. They consisted of grinding the fresh alfalfa through a disintegrator to break down the cell walls, expressing the liberated juice from the ground tissues by hydraulic pressure, heating the press juice to coagulate the protein, separating the curd from the brown whey-like juice, and drying the curd to yield the leaf protein concentrate containing no fiber and 40 percent or more of protein. However, more recently the development of high-energy poultry rations has been reducing the market for high-fiber products such as dehydrated alfalfa meal. Therefore, a large potential market exists for a low-fiber, high-xanthophyll supplement for broilers and laying hens which can be fulfilled by leaf-protein concentrate. The green color of the chlorophyll will enhance rather than detract from the market value of the product for chick feed. Dehydrated alfalfa meal can be prepared from the pressed cake to meet the present market grades. Wet fractionation is easily incorporated into a conventional dehydrated alfalfa meal production process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.