Animals from Wood Meal or Powder.
Year: 1886

page_text: Animals from Wood Meal or Powder.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM WENDENBURG of the town of Stolp in the Kingdom
of Prussia and German Empire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING FOOD FOR CATTLE
AND OTHER ANIMALS FROM WOOD MEAL OR POWDER and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
My invention relates to an improved process for manufacturing food for cattle
and other animals from wood meal or powder which said food can be employed in
a wet state or can be baked and formed into cakes of suitable size and form-It is
well known that wood is very difficult to digest: the nutritive properties contained
in the same can only then be utilized when the said wood has been opened up by
being subjected to the action of chemicals calculated to attain the said object. It
is true that wood and especially the bark of trees possesses nutritive properties
which is proved to evidence by the fact that horses, deer and other animals eat the
bark and wood of trees with avidity but the most nutricious parts of the same
can only be made available by separating or opening up the same by means of
appropriate chemicals.
Now I prepare wood in a simple economical manner and produce a nutricious
food for animals therefrom by rendering such said wood readily digestable as will
be found by the following analysis.
For instance 100 parts by weight of dried water free material containing :—
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It will be evident from the foregoing that a very cheap alimentary substance is
produced and at the same time food for cattle which can be obtained at all times
of the year and in every country, it being so cheap that it is within the reach of
the smallest cattle owner.
In order to carry my said invention into effect the wood of beech, birch,
lime, acacia or other trees is reduced to a fine powder or meal by means of any
appropriate machine the construction of which it is not necessary to describe as
various kinds of constructions can be employed with like good effect.
This fine meal or wood powder is now mixed with common salt in the proportion
of three pounds of salt to every hundred pounds of wood meal or powder. An

page_text: appropriate quantity of scalding hot or heated water, waste lye from distilleries or
its equivalent, to which muriatic acid of about one eighth per cent in weight of
the lye or water has been previously added is now intimately mixed with the
mixture of wood meal or powder and salt and well stirred until a very thin pulp
like mass is produced which is allowed to stand for about six hours.
After this said mixture has remained standing as aforesaid for about six hours
soda dissolved in water is added to the mass in the proportion of about one eighth
per cent of the weight of the wood meal or powder employed and then the entire
mass thoroughly stirred adding at the same time a small quantity of chloride of
lime and after the said mass is intimately mixed the same is allowed to stand for
about 6 hours after which the said mass can be employed for feeding cattle or other
animals.
If it is desired to form the mass or compound above described into bread or
cakes I prefer to add to the same a mineral salt such as phosphate of lime or
bicarbonate of soda with an addition of chloride of lime instead of chloride of
lime alone.
To the so prepared meal or mass I now add about 1 per cent by weight of salt
and mix the whole with a suitable quantity of flour, bruised grain, bran, or flour
or meal from oily grains or fruits such as rape and so on.
This mass is now mixed with a weak slightly colored lime water or milk of lime
and yeast, leaven or their equivalents and kneaded into dough which can be baked,
pressed or roasted.
The proportion of grain meal and other matter to the wood meal must be varied
according to circumstances, that is, whether the same is to be employed for feeding
young animals, milk cows or working animals.
For each 100 pounds of meal I prefer to employ about 20 to 25 pounds of milk
of lime of about 1th to 1th per cent strength.
My improved meal can also be provided with leaven, kneaded or trodden hard
or firm, allowed to come to fermantation by self heating and can then be used
as food.
Wood meal mixed with sweet sour mash is especially adapted for feeding milk
giving cows. For this purpose a mash of potatoes and malt is made which after the
convertion of the starch into sugar i.e. after about 8 hours will have a sweet soury
flavor. So much hot water is now added to the mash that the wood meal which
is to serve as food is like a thick pulp which after standing for about an hour is
eaten by cattle with great avidity.
It will be evident from the foregoing that the proportions of the component
parts of my improved food for cattle can be modified in various manners without
in any way departing from the tenor of my said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The process for manufacturing food for animals from wood meal and other
appropriate materials or matter and the use application and employment of the
same as food for cattle and other animals substantially as and for the purpose
described in the foregoing specification.