Show Prevent Cows From Eating Garlic Tops Tops' Di Disagreeable Flavor and Odor Spread Quickly I Prepared d by the United d States Department of or Agriculture One minute after garlic Is Is' eaten enten by bya a cow the disagreeable flavor and odor of this pungent plant may be detected In the time milk This Is one of the time facts acts brought out In an investigation In carried carried car car- ried On n by the Ue bureau of dairying United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture ture and r reported ported In Department Bulletin Bulletin Bul Dul- letin 13 1320 G Effect of f Garlic on the Flavor of Milk by 0 C. J. J Babcock The only practical way to prevent the time app appearance ap ap- p rance of this thIs thIs' flavor and odor in In milk In reg regions ons where the weed Infests Infests In In- feats pastures Is to to keep keep the Ule cows from from eating t the plant In In- Inthe the tests which were made mude by giving to s several veral persons persons samples of milk from vs milked at t different perl periods ds after drier having hn Teen been e fed ed garlic and arid from check cows it it was found that time the intensity of the bad flavor flavor- and odor Increased until It reached a D maximum at nt ten minutes after feed fee lag ng the odorous odorous' Bad flavor flavor favor and odor were present to an nn objectionable o degree deglee when the cows ate one half pound of garlic tops four hours before milking As the time between the eatIng eat eat- lag Ing ng of the garlic and aud milking time Increased Increased increased In in- creased th the bail bad flavor or and odor odor dor iii dl- dl and in seven hours practical practical- iy I y disappeared Not ot only were the garlic flavor or nn and odor taken taken In In by bj eating but but It It was wass s shown low that In al g garlic lIc for or l ten minutes gives stron strong flavor and atHI odor odoro to o the milk mille Milk Bilk drawn 90 DO minutes s after fter of garlic Uc was practically U cn II free fre from froth objectionable flavors and arid odors Copies coples of 01 the bulletin bulletin may be chained ob ch tamed free as long as the supply lasts from the time United States Department of Agriculture Washington i |