Abstract
Feeding trials with both sheep and steers and digestion and balance tests were conducted on alfalfa hay of varying phosphorus content to study its nutritive value. Hay produced on virgin sandy desert soil which contained 0.10% phosphorus was unpalatable and produced poor animal gains, feed utilization and depressed serum phosphorus content. The addition of disodium phosphate to this hay improved animal gains, feed utilization and increased the blood serum phosphorus. Hay containing 0.15% phosphorus was apparently equal in feeding value to hay containing greater amounts of phosphorus. Digestion trials on the various hays did not reveal any significant differences in the digestibility of the various nutrients. Balance trials showed no difference in nitrogen retention and a variable calcium balance. An increased retention of phosphorus was obtained by adding disodium phosphate to a low phosphorus hay in one test, in another, the addition of disodium phosphate to unfertilized hay resulted in increasing the phosphorus retention up to that of heavily fertilized hay.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Alfalfa hay with 0.10% phosphorus produced poorer animal gains and feed utilization.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- 0.10% phosphoruse1
- Outcome
- animal gains, feed utilizatione1
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede1
- Setting
- virgin sandy desert soile1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e1“Hay produced on virgin sandy desert soil which contained 0.10% phosphorus was unpalatable and produced poor animal gains, feed utilization and depressed serum phosphorus content”
Claim · model-written summary
Alfalfa hay with 0.10% phosphorus depressed serum phosphorus content.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- 0.10% phosphoruse1
- Outcome
- serum phosphorus contente1
- Direction
- depressede1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e1“Hay produced on virgin sandy desert soil which contained 0.10% phosphorus was unpalatable and produced poor animal gains, feed utilization and depressed serum phosphorus content”
Claim · model-written summary
Alfalfa hay with 0.10% phosphorus was unpalatable.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- 0.10% phosphoruse1
- Outcome
- unpalatablee1
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e1“Hay produced on virgin sandy desert soil which contained 0.10% phosphorus was unpalatable and produced poor animal gains, feed utilization and depressed serum phosphorus content”
Claim · model-written summary
Adding disodium phosphate to this hay improved animal gains and feed utilization.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- addition of disodium phosphatee2
- Outcome
- animal gains, feed utilizatione2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Comparator
- this haye2
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e2“The addition of disodium phosphate to this hay improved animal gains, feed utilization and increased the blood serum phosphorus”
Claim · model-written summary
Adding disodium phosphate to this hay increased blood serum phosphorus.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- addition of disodium phosphatee2
- Outcome
- blood serum phosphoruse2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Comparator
- this haye2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e2“The addition of disodium phosphate to this hay improved animal gains, feed utilization and increased the blood serum phosphorus”
Claim · model-written summary
Hay with 0.15% phosphorus was apparently equal in feeding value to hay with greater amounts of phosphorus.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- 0.15% phosphoruse3
- Outcome
- feeding valuee3
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede3
- Qualifier
- apparently equale3
- Comparator
- hay containing greater amounts of phosphoruse3
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e3“Hay containing 0.15% phosphorus was apparently equal in feeding value to hay containing greater amounts of phosphorus”
Claim · model-written summary
Digestion trials of the various hays showed no significant differences in the digestibility of the nutrients.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- various hayse4
- Outcome
- digestibility of the various nutrientse4
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede4
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e4“Digestion trials on the various hays did not reveal any significant differences in the digestibility of the various nutrients”
Claim · model-written summary
Balance trials showed no difference in nitrogen retention among the hays.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Outcome
- nitrogen retentione5
- Direction
- no differencee5
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t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e5“Balance trials showed no difference in nitrogen retention and a variable calcium balance”
Claim · model-written summary
The calcium balance of the hays was variable.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Outcome
- calcium balancee5
- Qualifier
- variablee5
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t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e5“Balance trials showed no difference in nitrogen retention and a variable calcium balance”
Claim · model-written summary
Adding disodium phosphate to a low phosphorus hay increased phosphorus retention in one test.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- adding disodium phosphatee6
- Outcome
- retention of phosphoruse6
- Direction
- increasede6
- Qualifier
- in one teste6
- Comparator
- a low phosphorus haye6
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e6“An increased retention of phosphorus was obtained by adding disodium phosphate to a low phosphorus hay in one test”
Claim · model-written summary
In another test, adding disodium phosphate to unfertilized hay increased phosphorus retention up to that of heavily fertilized hay.
- Taxon
- AlfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Treatment
- addition of disodium phosphatee7
- Outcome
- phosphorus retentione7
- Direction
- increasinge7
- Qualifier
- in anothere7
- Comparator
- heavily fertilized haye7
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Hay of Varying Phosphorus Content”
e7“in another, the addition of disodium phosphate to unfertilized hay resulted in increasing the phosphorus retention up to that of heavily fertilized hay”
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