THE USE OF POPPY SEED CAKE AS A CATTLE 



FOOD AND ITS EFFECT ON YIELD OF MILK 



AND COMPOSITION OF THE BUTTER FAT. 



By H. E. ANNBTT and JATINDRA NATH SEN. 

 {Opium Research Laboratory, Cawnpore.) 



Introduction. 



Wherever the oiiium poppy is cultivated its seed forms a valuable 

 secondary crop. India has a bigger outturn of seed than any other 

 country. In the years immediately preceding the war the bulk of the 

 poppy seed produced in India was exported. The following Table^ gives 

 an idea of the proportion of the total production exported for a number 

 of years past. 



Table I. 



* Includes the seed obtained from "Malwa" opium crop, of which certain quantities 

 were exported. 



The next Table^ (II) shows the countries to which the seed was ex- 

 ported: 



Table II. 



Total export 34,943 23,402 18,980 6,992 6,872 5,524 



* Probably largely re-exported to Germany. Figure not available. 



1 Bull. Imp. I».^l. 1917, 15, 3, p. 392. ^ ioc_ cit. p. 390. 



