Miscellaneous Feeding Stuffs. 221 



vas founded in Uraguay, and who suggested the utilization of 

 the refase meat for stock feeding. Large quantities of flesh meal 

 or meat scrap are now shiiJi^ed from South America to Europe for 

 use as feed and fertilizers. As shown by the table, this product 

 is remarkably rich in protein, which gives it a high value in con- 

 nection with corn for feeding stock, especially pigs. 



According to Wolff, ^ flesh meal has been found satisfactory as 

 a food for ruminants as well as for swine. When fed to cows and 

 oxen, only a limited quantity should at first be given, the amount 

 being increased until two or three pounds are fed daily. Lambs 

 and sheep digest flesh meal as completely as do pigs, and thrive 

 on this feed. 



Judging from the results obtained with flesh meal, there is no 

 reason why the better grades of meat scrap produced at our 

 slaughter-houses should not be used for feeding stock, especially 

 pigs. La Querriere, * discussing meat scrap, concludes that it is 

 excellent for horses when boiled and mixed with hay and straw. 

 The practice of feeding meat to horses is by no means new. The 

 Arabs prepared camels' flesh with other feed in the form of cakes 

 which were given to their horses, thus providing a concentrated, 

 nutritious food. 



Scheurer 3 has shown that meat scrap mixed with ground grain 

 and baked into a bread can be kept for at least seven years with- 

 out suffering deterioration. A division of English army horses 

 fed American dried meat made into a biscuit with oats showed 

 d^icided superiority over horses fed in the ordinary way. Such 

 meat biscuits have been recommended for feeding race-horses. 

 (778, 874) 



340. Dried fish, fish scrap. — Two feeds made from fish have 

 been placed on the market, viz., fish scrap, which is the dried 

 and ground refuse in the manufacture of dried codfish, and her- 

 ring cakes or fish meal, which are the whole fish, dried and 

 ground. Both fish scrap and fish cake are used as cattle feeds in 

 the coast regions of Europe. (551) The effects of fish cakes on 

 milk and butter have been studied by Nilson, * Winberg ^ and 



1 Fai-m Foods, Eng. Ed., p. 204. 



* Milchzeitung, 1881, p. 753. 



»Loc. cit. 



♦Kgl. Landtbr.-Akad. HandL, 1889, 257. 



» Tidskrift f. Landtmaen, 1891, 522. 



