Specification of William Edward Newton : preparation of food for animals.

  • Newton, William Edward.
Date:
1857
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    <*v^ fvcy _ __JLCl Newtons Preparation of Food for Animals. of all creatures that subsist upon it, and it fattens them in the most extra¬ ordinary manner. I would remark that this new food, as aforesaid, may be prepared and used for all other animals in the same manner as for hogs, only adapting that con¬ stituent portion of the same which is mixed or incorporated with the said flour of coal, bitumen, resin, peat, or lignite, to suit the condition, taste, peculiarities, and appetite of the particular animal to be subsisted or fattened by it. As an illustration of this fact, it may be stated that all graminivorous animals which require hay, grass, straw, stalks, and such like food or fodder, may be fed and fattened by the food prepared as aforesaid for hogs, in con¬ junction with cut, ground, or chopped hay, straw, stalks, husks, and such like substances, the whole being mixed and thoroughly incorporated together, and kneaded up into a thick doughy mass. Fowls relish ground corn and pul¬ verized, coaly, bituminous, or resin matter aforesaid, mixed and kneaded up as set forth, and they fatten upon this food in the most astonishing manner. It is important to remark that all animals require water to drink after eating this food. This food, sweetened to the taste and made light by yeast or soda, and baked or otherwise cooked, is an excellent support to the respiratory organs of consumptive persons, and may be used generally by man as a source of nutrition. The pulverized coal, bitumen, resin, oxydized and concrete residuums of distilled or evaporized petroleum, crude coal oil, lignite, and peat, being odor- I less and tasteless, impart no flavor to meat or fat produced by it. The aforesaid are some of the methods of preparing and using this new food. The benefits of it are very great: one pound of coal, prepared and fed to animals as above, will make as much pork or beef or mutton or poultry as two pounds of corn, as has been proved by many carefully conducted experiments. It is therefore evident that meat and accompanying fats may be produced by means of this new food at far less cost than it is possible to produce the same from corn or farinaceous or feculaceous matters alone. Having now described the nature and operation of this Invention, which has been communicated to me as aforesaid, I would observe that I do not intend to confine myself to the precise mixtures or proportions herein-before named; but I intend to embrace and cover the whole ground of preparing food by the use of coal and the other bituminous and resinous matters, as aforesaid, in combination with other common or proper food for animals, in any manner and in any mixtures or proportions; 1 therefore claim,— First, the use of coal, asphalte, bitumen, lignite, peat, humus, resins, and the concrete or oxydized portions of petroleum and crude coal oil,