Improved Manufacture of Condensed Food and Fodder.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Manufacture of Condensed Food and Fodder.
I, HERMAN BUNKER of the Town of Barrie, County of Simcoe, Province of
Ontario, Canada, Machinist, 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 improved condensed food and fodder for the use of
horses, mules, cattle, and other animals and the object of the invention is to produce
a highly nutritious, wholesome and strengthening food, which will be palatable and
beneficial for all sorts of draught animals such as mules and oxen and also for
cattle, sheep, pigs and all such animals as may require fattening and it consists
essentially of the following ingredients, which are combined together in substan-
tially the proportion stated viz.:
.
Hay, straw, corn stalks, chaff or any other similar
fibrous fodder (chopped fine)
Oats, peas, wheat, barley, corn, buckwheat or any
other similar cercal (crushed or rolled)
Lime newly slacked, ground ginger or other similar
astringent
Oil cake or flaxseed or linseed or other similar
-
-
laxative and feeding medium (ground fine)
Coarse brown sugar or other suitable laxative
Poplar or willow root or other similar bitters
Common fine salt
Salt petre
These ingredients are to be well and thoroughly mixed.
1 ton.
ton.
2 lbs.
30 lbs.
30 lbs.
1 lb.
3 lbs.
1 lb.
It is proposed in the manufacture of this composition food to mix the fibrous
fodder with the requisite amount of cereals chopped fine in a circular pan. The
said ingredients to be carried in troughs from the cutting box and crusher
simultaneously and the ingredients at once combined by revolving arms with
suitable rakes or forks or paddles attached so as to mix it up perfectly. During
the process of mixture the medicinal ingredients mixed up and ground will be
slowly added. When all the ingredients are perfectly combined the whole will be
pressed by suitable machinery into blocks or bricks preferably twelve inches long
by five inches deep and five inches wide and weighing ten pounds.
I find by experiment that such sized block of this weight would be comprised of
the following proportions.
Fibrous fodder
Cereals
Lime -
Ground ginger
Oil cake
Brown sugar
Poplar roots
Salt petre
Common fine salt
->
6 lbs. 10 oz.
3 lbs.
oz.
oz.
4 oz.
1 oz.
trace.
trace.
1 oz.
Although I describe the above sized block as the preferable size it will of course
be understood that the block may be of any suitable size. It will also be under-
stood that in warm climates I necessarily use a less proportion of the cereals than

page_text: described above or in case the animals are used for light work or are being
transported. I find it preferable, however, in regard to the fodder and cereals to
make the proportions of the same as in my composition viz. two to one, when the
condensed food is designed to be used in.shanties, mines or by exploring parties or
where the work is extremely hard and the demand for strengthening food great,
four to one, when there is a less demand for strengthening food, such as when
animals are being transported or are being used for light domestic work.
I should preferably in either case, however, use the newly slacked lime, the
coarse brown sugar, the poplar or willow root bark or other bitters and the common
fine salt in substantially the proportions specified. I would also preferably.
decrease the proportions of ground ginger or oil cake for warm climates but
increase for severer climates, the proportions specified being about the medium.
I do not describe the peculiar properties of the various ingredients as they are
commonly known and it is not necessary in this Specification but I might state
that such condensed food as made is capable of perservation in all climates for a
long period of time fresh and palatable for the animals for whose use it is
intended.
To use my condensed fodder it is merely necessary to break off from the block
or brick the quantity desired and dampen it when it will expand to its original
bulk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described composition of matter comprised of fibrous fodder
chopped fine a crushed cereal lime newly slacked coarse brown sugar bitters and
salt in the proportions specified.
2. The herein described composition of matter comprised of fibrous fodder
chopped fine a crushed cereal lime newly slacked coarse brown sugar bitters salt
ground ginger and oil cake in the proportions specified.
3. As a new article of manufacture a composition consisting of a fibrous fodder
chopped fine a crushed cereal lime newly slacked coarse brown sugar bitters salt
ground ginger and oil cake treated and pressed into blocks as described and for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 4th day of June 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.