Improvements in or appertaining to Food Preparations for Horses, Cattle, and other Live Stock.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Food Preparations for Horses,
Cattle, and other Live Stock.
We MARIE VERKINDERE of Rue du Petit Chateau 10, Rentière and BERNARD
LOEWENSTEIN, Banker of Rue Neuve 17 both of Brussels in the Kingdom of
Belgium, 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 :-
Of all cereals, beans and peas are generally considered to be the most nutritious
food for live stock, they are however difficult of digestion and liable to cause wind
and intestinal troubles when taken in their natural state.
The object of the present invention is to provide a food preparation for animals
containing beans or peas or both (mixed or not with other cereals or nutritious
substances) wherein the cereals are so treated as to facilitate their digestion and
are combined with substances which ensure their perfect assimilation.
To this end, the beans or peas of any kind (mixed or not with other cereals or
nutritious substances) are submitted to a slight torrefaction in any suitable
apparatus, for instance in an iron retort exposed to the action of heat or steam.
Then they are reduced to powder and mixed together with common salt and
certain medical substances which facilitate their assimilation, (such as madder root,
gentian, laurel berries, or other roots herbs and seeds possessing similar properties,)
also reduced to powder.
The food is packed in tin boxes or in bags or any other suitable receptacles, and
it is given to the live stock either in its dry state, or better, after having been
boiled in water.
The following is an example of the composition of a food for live stock prepared
in accordance with this invention, which may be recommended as having been tried
with good results :-

page_text: Madder root
Fenugreek
The provender Verkindere is composed of the following ingredients which are
reduced to powder and mixed together :-
Rubbed bread
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25 kilos.
30
12
22
202 50
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Tubercles of topinambour (winter artichoke or tuberous
sunflower)
Common salt
White mustard -
Black pepper
Assafoetida
Camphor
Aloes
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Radix graminis (Chiendent)
Moss of Corsica
Sarsaparilla
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Aspidium (fougère mâle)
' Seed of the Indian chestnut tree
Rosemary
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20
2.500
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0.100
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0.280
0.050
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1
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0.550
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Together 100
kilos. of
provender.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The improvements in food preparations for live stock consisting in slightly a
torrefying and reducing to flour or powder the beans, peas, or other like nutritious
but indigestible cereals contained therein and mixing the same with common salt
and pulverized or reduced medical substances, herbs, roots, or seeds, capable of
facilitating the assimilation of said cereals substantially as described.
2. A food preparation for live stock consisting of slightly torrified and ground
cereals mixed together with common salt and medical substances, herbs, roots, or
seeds, capable of facilitating the assimilation of the cereals such as gentian, madder
root, mustard, pepper, laurel berries, and the like, also reduced to powder,
substantially as described.
3. The food preparation for live stock hereinbefore set forth and numbered 13
and 2 when treated and mixed in the manner described and in the proportions
given or in such other proportions as may be found most desirable.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON, Fels. Chartered Inst. Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
For the Applicant.