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The Addition of Raw Beef or Meat Scrap to a Wheat-Milk Diet^*

(From the Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick)

1. The addition of fresh beef or of a meat scrap to a wheat-milk diet, used as a breeding colony ration for white rats, improved reproduction, and the growth rate and general vigor of the young as compared with the performance on the wheat-milk diet.

2. The use of dried yeast with the wheat-milk diet caused a slight improvement in reproduction but the growth rate and general vigor of the young were not bettered.

3. The improved performance on the wheat-milk diet supplemented with fresh beef or with meat scrap cannot be due chiefly to an increase in calcium and phosphorus or to an increase in the Ca:P ratio.

Manuscript received 14 September 1931.