Improvements in the Preparation of Feeding Meal for Poultry, Pigs, Cattle, and other Live Stock.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
Improvements in the Preparation of Feeding Meal for Poultry, Pigs,
Cattle, and other Live Stock.
I, WILLIAM PURDY of the Toll House, College Road, Dulwich, London,
Poultry-meal Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
With the usual farinaceous ingredients, which are varied according to the time
of year and nature of creature to be fed, I mix a small quantity of salt saltpetre
and sulphur, which together form an acid which combines with the saccharine
constituents of the meal.
A small amount of ginger and mustard can also be added, but is needed more in
winter than in summer.
I then bring the whole into contact with zinc, either by passing it between zinc
rollers or rubbing it through a zinc seive or stirring it with zinc stirrers or in any
other suitable way. The acid before referred to acting on the zinc produces a
slightly bitter flavour in the meal, which renders it very attractive to poultry and
other stock, which cat it eagerly and fatten and thrive on it to a remarkable
degree. Fowls fed with it will lay all through the winter.
Dated this 1st day of August 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, London, Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in the Preparation of Feeding Meal for Poultry, Pigs,
Cattle, and other Live Stock.
I, WILLIAM PURDY of the Toll House, College Road, Dulwich, London
Poultry-meal Manufacturer, 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 is designed to furnish an attractive and stimulating food for
poultry and other live stock which shall not merely fatten the creatures partaking
of it, but shall also improve their condition all round, causing them to put on
flesh and to perform their functions, (such as laying eggs for instance) in a more
satisfactory and efficient manner than they would do without it.
In preparing my food for poultry I take first some of the usual farinaceous
ingredients, such wheat middlings maize-meal and pea-meal with a little
sulphur, salt and cultpetre the proportion being varied according to the time
of the year.

page_text: 1 then bring the whole into contact with zinc, either by passing it between zinc
rollers or rubbing it through a zinc sieve or stirring it with zinc stirrers or in any
other suitable way.
The salts before referred to acting on the zinc produces a slightly bitter flavour
in the meal, which renders it very attractive to poultry and other stock, which eat
it eagerly and fatten and thrive on it to a remarkable degree. Fowls fed with it
will lay all through the winter.
My improved feeding meal will not turn sour if kept dry. It can be used as the
entire food of the birds if they are poor in flesh or deficient in appetite but as they
improve in condition it can be given alternately with other food, or in decreasing
quantity. One meal of it daily is usually sufficient.
It is well suited for pigs, calves, cattle and all other live stock, and can be mixed
with the other constituents of their food or given separately as preferred.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:-
The combination of a mixture of the usual farinaceous food in the form of meal
with a little sulphur salt and saltpetre and with or without a small quantity of ginger
and mustard; the meal thus formed being passed through zinc rollers, or well
shaken or rubbed in a sieve made of perforated or woven zinc, or otherwise
brought for a short time in contact with zinc, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 31st day of October 1895.