improved Cattle Food.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
improved Cattle Food.
I, AUGUST RICHARD THEODOR FERDINAND PAUL BLAUBACH, of No. 8, Am Deich,
Bremen, in the German Empire, 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:-
The present invention relates to a feeding stuff which is distinguishable both
by the simplicity of its preparation as also by its specially high nutritive value
in proportion to its price.
The material known as "Melasse" which is a final product in the manufacture
of sugar from beetroot, and the sugar in which can no longer be obtained by
crystallization, forms in consequence of this sugar, of a considerable quantity of
albuminous material, and also in consequence of the presence of a considerable
percentage of mineral salts, a very good feeding stuff for cattle.
The use of this melasse for cattle food has been, however, hitherto very difficult,
because the cattle do not willingly take the melasse, which is too sweet, and is
also objectionable on account of its sloppy consistency.
All previous endeavours to bring the melasse into a suitable form have proved
useless, because no suitable substances were found which would mingle intimately
with the same, and retain it on drying. Various efforts in this direction have
produced hitherto only a cattle food which was formed of pulverized peat and
melasse, because peat had proved itself the most suitable for the purpose in view.
It is, however, obvious that a cattle food produced of melasse with the addition
of ground peat has lost the greater part of the principal value of the melasse,
because the ground peat consists only of cellulose, which is indigestible, and with-
out nutritive value.
It is evidently unreasonable to mix so good a nutritive material with a perfectly
innutritious one. But hitherto there was no alternative to the use of peat for
the said purpose, because as already mentioned all other materials produced other
undesirable effects, and especially because various meals, bran, and the like made
a paste with the melasse, so that the cattle would also not eat it.
After many experiments the inventor has discovered how to produce a mixture
of oatmeal and melasse according to a special process.
In this new feeding stuff the two materials both of high nutritive value, namely,
oatmeal and melasse, are combined together in a suitable mixture. The propor-
tion of oatmeal added may vary from about 15% to 50% of the melasse. In the
form in which it is supplied to the cattle it is very easily digestible, and conse-
quently very nutritious.
The preparation of the food is effected by mixing melasse in a warm and very
thin condition, with oatmeal, or groats, leaving the mass for a considerable time
to cake and dry. After repeated turning over there is then produced a product
of the consistence and appearance of a somewhat sticky fine feeding meal. The
spiculated structure of the peat is much more disagreeable to the cattle than the
soft oatmeal, and moreover the flavour of the latter is evidently much preferred
to that of the former.

page_text: In nutritive materials the above described new feeding stuff will contain about
23 per cent. of fats and protein materials, so that it may be regarded as one of the
best foods for horse and dairy purposes.
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:-
.
The improved cattle food, consisting essentially of the mixture of oatmeal or
groats saturated and mixed with a warm dilute mclasse, the whole mass being
prepared by repeated turning over until the drying and absorption of the fluid
material is effected.
Dated this 11th day of .
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.