Mixture Of Beans Research Articles

エンシレージの化学的成分と品質に関する研究

The samples of silage made in different districts of this country, were investigated for the purpose of estimating their quality, and also to find the fundamental direction of silage-making. In each sample the contents of organic acids, dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, and crude ash, as well as the pH value, were determined in the usual manner, but in this paper, only those results obtained regarding the organic acid content and the pH value will be reported. Both green maize silage (45 per cent) and sweet potato vine silage (31 per cent) were a very high proportion of the samples. (1) The mean pH value of samples except silages of sweet potato, sweet potato with rice bran and Sansa (feces of silkworms and disused mulberry leaves which silkworms could not eat up), was 4.45. Fifty per cent of them had a pH value below 4.2. (2) Half of these samples had very good quality and about seventy per cent were of good or better quality. In general, green maize silages were superior to sweet potato vine silages. And also the lactic acid content of the former was significantly greater than that of the latter. The quality of chinese milk-vetch silage was very good without exception, though few samples were collected. (3) Even when the silage of sweet potato or sweet potato with rice bran had a high pH value compared with that of the grass silage, the butyric acid content was low or not. (4) It was consequently, suggested that the technique for the good silage was more difficult in ensiling the mixtures of green maize and green soy bean than ensiling green maize alone.

Blood Lactic Acid in Liver Glycogen Disease

An Increase in the amount of circulating lactic acid is generally attributed to anoxia. This is the cause of the high values obtained during muscular work, in cardiac decompensation, anemia, pneumonia, and shock. The concentration of lactic acid in the blood can, however, be raised above the normal fasting level by the injection of epinephrine. Cori has demonstrated that in this case the lactic acid comes largely from the breakdown of muscle glycogen. This phenomenon is apparently not associated with anoxia. We have recently had the opportunity to observe 2 infants with a singular disease, in which the high blood lactic acid would seem to be due to some other mechanism than that postulated. The disease in question, commonly known as hepatic glycogen disease or von Gierke's disease, is characterized by a defect in liver metabolism, in consequence of which the liver accumulates abnormally large stores of glycogen which it is unable to transform into glucose and excrete into the blood as a normal liver does during hypoglycemia. The patients are female infants; one 6 months, the other 61/2 months old. Both have very large livers. Neither shows any rise in blood sugar after the injection of epinephrine. Both tend to have very low blood sugar if not fed more frequently than a normal infant. Both have had convulsions due to hypoglycemia. Simultaneous determinations of blood sugar and lactic acid have been made 110 times. An analysis of the correlation of these individual determinations shows no consistent relation between the height of the blood sugar and that of the lactic acid. When, however, these infants are fed soy bean mixture and corn syrup at the usual 4-hourly intervals and also given 30 to 50 cc of a 10% glucose solution every hour between feedings, the blood sugar stays at normal or slightly higher levels and the lactic acid remains at between 20 and 50 mg per 100 cc (Fig. 1).

Composition of the Pulp and Seeds of Adansonia digitata

1. The pulp and seeds of Adansonia digitata have been analyzed, and the results agree with previous analyses of Pelly. 2. A feed analysis shows that the seeds have a composition similar to the seeds of Chenopodium album or a mixture of mesquite beans and pods. 3. About 50 per cent of the pulp is soluble in water. Reducing sugars, acids, proteins, and ash comprise about one-half of this amount; the remainder is probably chiefly pectic substances. Neither the pulp nor the seeds gave tests for starch. 4. The principal protein of the seeds is a globulin, which apparently has never been isolated before. 5. The tree has an economic significance since it furnishes food to carry several species of Dysdercus (cotton pests) through periods when cotton seeds are not available.