Learning on ScreenAnimal Crackers: Clotted Milk Detector
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Some ingenious ideas, developed by both agricultural scientists and working farmers, to improve efficiency down on the farm. Mastitis is a very common and painful infection of a cow’s teat, first noticeable as tiny clots in the milk. British research has tackled the problem in two ways. Early detection is now possible by incoporating a filter in the milking machine’s flow line, which traps these tiny clots; and a new one-way valve stops "back-flow" of milk, preventing bacteria spreading from teat to teat. A simple solution to a problem which, at present, costs the farmer up to £50 million a year.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Agriculture; Science and technology; Animal husbandry; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/264
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Mike Murray
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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