An improved Food for Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
An improved Food for Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and the like.
We, GEORG PERRON, of Frankenthal, and JACOB MAYER, of Neustadt on the
Haardt, both places being in the Palatinate, Germany, Merchants, 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
This invention relates to the making of an excellent food for increasing milk and
fattening for cattle, horses, and the like, out of industrial waste products which
regarded singly could only form one substance and be used in part but as a supple-
mentary food
The subject of our invention consists principally in the successful combining and
mixing of dried grains (refuse of brewing malt) and molasses-tu fmeal
It is well known that such died grains contain double as much proteine and
three times as much fat as barley, but they lack the extracted sugar as well as
the salts peculiar to every fruit
Molasses-turfmeal is a mixture of about 80% molasses and 20% turf or peat-
moss meal Molasses, a waste product of sugar manufacture, still contains a great
amount of uncrystallisable sugar whereof about 48% is cane sugar which though
almost exclusively carbo-hydrates yet conditions a high nutritive value, and also
about 8% salts of potash which occasion purging and therefore act detrimentally
on the animal organism The turfmeal contains only vegetable ingredients
Through the organic acids contained in the turf or peat-moss meal, especially
through the humic acid, the neutralisation of the salts of potash in the molasses
18 procured, so that these undergo change into a form innocuous to the animal
organism yet, despite this, are not lost to agriculture, being restored to it in the
shape of a valuable manure
Taking into consideration the facts that their most important fruity substance-
the sugar is extracted from the dried grains which are left rich in proteine and fat,
and that, contrariwise, molasses contain sugar in copious measure, it appeared to us
that an appropriate mixture thereof would justify itself
The success looked for herein did not fail us After previously cleaning the
grains and pulverising the molasses-turfmeal into powder which was also air-dried
by the use of a current of an in a suitable machine, a mixture consisting of
50 per cent grains and 50 per cent molasses-turfmeal was found to excite the desire
to eat in a high degree and to form flesh, fat, and muscle, while generating strength
Through the thorough mixing of molasses-turfmeal with dried grains, by virtue
of the capacity of absorption in the latter the fodder-mixture is made quite con-
venient to handle and dry, and the salts of potash contained in the molasses-turf-
meal are reduced to a normal measure thus being rendered, as also by their neutral-
isation, entirely nugatory in effect as regards the bodies of the animals
This dry fodder so prepared is durable because both materials before mixing
are exposed to a high grade of heat which kills all germs producing fermentation
This is not the case with other molasses mixtures those, for instance which
contain bran, maize-flour, etc As 19 well known, the substance of cereals though

page_text: severed into small particles still retains the property to ferment, and when stored
long, as well through warmth of temperature as also through absorption of
humidity, will be set fermenting and so laid open to destruction, and must have
a deleterious effect on the health of animals
Grains used alone for fodder find employment only for cattle, and must as a rule
be softened and fed wet, as they do not suit being fed dry because of their farin-
aceous constituents For horses, dried grains alone are altogether unsuitable,
not only on the foregoing ground, but because of their quality of having a some-
what constipating property In contradistinction, our fodder mixture prepared
in extremely serviceable proportions, forms an eminently fine fodder both as regards
its nourishing effect and its sanitary operation It can be efficiently served either
wet or dry, and alike with cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, the most advantageous
results are attained Moreover, an important consideration is that molasses-grains
which approach in nutritive value the prime kinds of corn fodder, especially oats,
can be provided at an essentially lower cost than these
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same 18 to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is,-
The production of a durable, dry fodder for horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and the
like, distinguishable herein that of 100 parts by weight of the prepared mixture,
about 50 parts by weight of clean grains with about the same number of parts by
weight of molasses-turfineal pulverized to powder are thoroughly mixed together
after having been air-dried by a current of au which 18 led into an appropriate
machine.