Year: 1888

page_text: I, JUNIUS ARIEL FREDERIC FEUCHÈRES, of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris,
France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Attempts have heretofore been made to use certain cereals and leguminous plants
as food for horses; but the quantity of proteine which these contain being much
greater than that contained in forage, they have proved too strong a food for this
purpose.
It was necessary to discover an adjutorium very poor in proteic matter, but rich in
crude cellulose, consequently indigestible, and forming therefore the ballast required by
the digestive organs of the horse.
This adjutorium has, according to the present invention, been found in wood, which
is a ligneous substance.
Wood finely pulverised, mixed with the pods of horse beans also pulverised, and
with oats, in the proportions that I will presently give, form a highly nutritious food,
in a small compass.
On account of its concentration, that is to say, of its value as a nutritive food and
of the cheapness of the sawdust used in its composition this food costs less than forage.
It is therefore economical.
The wood may be used without other preparation than that of fine pulverisation, or
it may be first treated as follows in order to decompose it and to open out its
constituent elements. The sawdust is soaked in water containing hydrochloric acid
in the proportion of 130 grammes in 50 litres of water for 100 kilos of sawdust, the
whole being thoroughly mixed.
At the end of 12 hours, 130 grammes of bicarbonate of soda are added, together
with 10 gramines of acid phosphate of lime in about 15 litres of water and with
some coarse salt.
The compound is again thoroughly stirred so as to obtain a complete mixture and is
then left standing 12 hours.

page_text: The quantity of water employed may vary according to the degree of dryness of
the sawdust.
The preparation should have the consistency of a thick mash.
The product I prefer to use is the horsebean, which contains 26% of proteine, but
instead of using the horsebean itself I take the pods reduced to powder. These
contain all the nutritive elements of the horse bean, and cost much less.
To these two substances I add oats; I mix all the above materials together with
water, and I make cakes which are then baked in an oven.
Six kilos and a half of these cakes are equivalent to ten kilos of forage. The
proportions which I use for making 6 kilos 500 grs. of the compound are as follows:
3 kilos sawdust finely pulverised, 1.500 kilos pods of beans finely pulverised, 2 kilos
6 kilo 500 grammes.
oats =
Thus composed, these cakes give a relative nutriment of 1: 3.6, which answers to
a very high degree of digestibility, consequently to a great nutritive power.
The cakes must be baked perfectly dry, so that they may keep well.
they be found too dry when required for use they can be moistened with
water.
Should
For feeding horned cattle or sheep a mixture should be made of sawdust and
oil cake of linseed, sesamum, or of any other grain, or the meal of such grain, but
I prefer to use the oil cakes after extraction of the oil from these grains, on account
of their cheapness and of their containing a large amount of proteic matter. This
latter should constitute at most from one fifth to one sixth of the mixture, according
to the age of the animals to be fed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The manufacture of food for horses, consisting of an admixture of sawdust
or wood powder with leguminous plants and cereals, substantially as herein
described.
2. The manufacture of food for horned cattle and sheep consisting of an admixture
of sawdust or wood powder with oil cake, substantially as herein described.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.