Hillsboro recorder., 1888-05-10
Food for Cattle.

IL mas been proved In France by ex-
perlments made by NJ. Regnard that
lambs and calves flourish finely on blood
diet, says Chicago Tribune core.
spondent. Tons on tons of blood are now
wasted which should be saved and
utilized on the great cattle ranges and
in the Chicago Slaughter houses. No
more compact form Of food can be found.
1t would bear transportation to places
where no kind of grain or -four could
probably be taken. All animals, even
the herbivora, are at first nourished on
diet of milk, which is purely animal
food, therefore properly prepared blood
diet is not so much against nature as it
would seem at the first mention of it.
In France the blood is prepared by
heating it to 100 degrees centigrade.
This forms coagulum which is pressed
and then rapidly dried in an oven. The
blood thus desicated is then ground in a
mill like spice or coffee mill, when it is
ready to be sacked for shipment. 1t is
said to be destitute of odor and taste
and keeps we'll. 1t requires but very
small quantity of this blood food to
keep lamb or calf in excellent condi-
tion. In France, in the experiments
made, the meal Of blood was given
mixed with other food, and the doses
were only from ten to eighty grains
daily.
One Of the experiments was as fol-
lows: Three lambs were kept on the
ordinary diet of beet-root, hay, etc,
and to three others the powdered blood
was given. The first steadily lost flesh,
while the latter increased to three times
the original weight, and connolsseurs
declared that they had never seen such
fine lambs Of the same age. The ami
mails surpassed their fellows which had
been sucked BY their dams both in
weight and size, and their coat OF wool
became doubled in thickness.
With calves there was the same aston
lshing success, and this system of ali
mentation is now found to be also ap-
plicable TO the human race. and in the
case of rickety child eighteen months
Of age the results obtained were even
beyond the expectations OF the most
sanguine. The blood meal could doubt
less be dissolved in warm water very
readily. in which shape itcould be given
TO lambs abandoned by their mothers,
or 70 very young calves.
At Chicago, and at all the great manu-
featuring places, immense quantities Of
this bloodmeaI might be cheaply pre-.
pared. It would doubtless be good foi
man as well as beast, and brand fol
his use should also be manufactured.
This should be prepared with due regard
TO cleanliness, and would then form 9
more compact food than any known. II
could be used as an ingredient in soup:
ard many other dishes; with small
sack Of It mixed in proper proportion
with cornmeal or oatmeal, cowboy
might scout the mountains for month.
He would only need water to prepare
first-class soup. Had the De Ione
party been provided with sack Of. thii
blood-meal when they abandoned theil
vessel in the Arctic and took to thu
shore they would have pulled through
the winter.
The cattle and sheep men OF Idaho and
Montana should have good stock Of thii
blood meal prepared AZ Chicago or else
where next summer and shipped TO then
fornext winter. In the dry air Of re
gions hitherward il would keep bette
than in the East, where it might be in
jured By absorbing too much moisture ii
damp weather. Dairymen will also wan
this blood food. They may then rea
their calves and at the same time sell al
the milk their cows produce.