1904 
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BLOOD AND TANKAGE FOR STOCK. 
How Made. —For several years some 
of the western packing companies have 
been manufacturing preparations for 
stock foods and tonics from the waste 
of their packing plants. Blood, bone 
and tankage are the materials used in 
the various preparations, and dried 
blood or blood meal, beef meal, bone 
meal, and tankage meal are the various 
products which come out from the pro¬ 
cess. Tankage is the term applied to 
the product which drops to the bottom 
in the rendering tanks at the packing 
houses when they are rendering out 
grease, tallow, etc. This residue is dried 
and ground into a meal and put on the 
market as a balanced ration feed for 
hogs. Blood meal is made by pumping 
the green blood from the killing floors 
to cooking rooms. There it is cooked, 
dried and ground into a meal. It is put 
on the market as a balanced ration feed 
for steers and dairy cows, and a tonic 
for debilitated calves. Beef meal is 
made from scraps of bone and meat 
from which the grease has been render¬ 
ed. The scraps are thoroughly dried, 
pressed and ground into a meal for the 
market. This differs little from the 
tankage product. These products all 
base their claim to value on their high 
protein content, the claim being made 
that the tankage product will analyze as 
high as 60 per cent protein, and the 
blood meal 87 per cent. A bone meal is 
also manufactured especially as a poul¬ 
try food, on account of its phosphate 
content. This product is also fed to 
pigs, but its value for this purpose has 
not been fully demonstrated. The value 
of these products has been made the sub¬ 
ject of study at several experiment sta¬ 
tions, and the results of the tests com¬ 
prise the best obtainable data as to the 
advantages of their use. Among feeders 
and stockmen generally the use of the 
packing-house products has not been 
general enough or long enough con¬ 
tinued to demonstrate definitely whar 
their use on the farms and in the feed¬ 
ing pens will accomplish. 
Food for Calves. —The experiments 
at the Kansas Station with blood meal 
have demonstrated that it has a high 
\alue as a tonic for calves. The results 
of the tests made here were published 
only after two years of experiment, and 
the experiments covered a range of con¬ 
ditions that make the results seem 
pretty conclusive. One experiment was 
with a calf that was unable to derive 
sufficient nourishment from its mother’s 
milk, and did so poorly that to save its 
life it became necessary to remove it 
from its dam: 
With the ordinary treatment accorded 
our calves he grew worse and worse, and 
when 7!) days old weighed only 90 pounds, 
or four pounds heavier than at birth. A1 
though no one would have given 10 cents 
for the calf at this time, an effort was 
made to bring him out. He was given 
castor oil, laudanum, fresh eggs, calf meal, 
and, as a last resort, dried blood. With 
the blood the calf commenced to improve, 
and in a short time was gaining at tho 
rate of nearly 14 pounds per week, and not 
infrequently as high as 17 to 18 pounds per 
week. When a year old he weighed 578 
pounds—a pretty good record for a calf 
that gained only four pounds for the first 
79 days of its existence. The dried blood 
consumed during parts of three months 
amounted to 714 pounds. At two cents per 
pound, the cost was 15 cents. 
Another similar case produced a like 
result. A calf that was actually losing 
in weight under ordinary treatment was 
brought into fair condition by feeding a 
little dried blood with its milk. Dried 
Hood was also found to be an excellent 
remedy for scours in calves. A test was 
made with five calves that were scouring 
at the same time. With two of these 
dried blood was fed after reducing the 
regular feed of milk. With the other 
three the dried blood was fed without 
changing the supply of milk. Two feeds 
brought about the recovery of the first 
two, and three feeds accomplished the 
same end for the other three. The re¬ 
port states that of the 70 young calves 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
that were under experiment at the sta¬ 
tion during the second year of the ex¬ 
periments, there was not a single case 
of scours that dried blood failed to 
check. The experimenters draw the con¬ 
clusion that since dried blood is such a 
cheap and effective remedy, it will pay 
anyone who raises young calves by hand 
to have a little available whenever a 
calf shows signs of disorders in its di¬ 
gestive tract. 
As Cattle Food. —Extensive experi¬ 
ments with packing-house products as 
feed for cattle have been made at the 
Iowa Station. This Station over a year 
ago published the results of a series of 
experiments with condimental foods fed 
for beef in connection with corn and 
wheat straw. A number of proprietary 
foods were used in the experiments, and 
also oil meal, cotton-seed meal, gluten 
meal and dried blood. In all 11 lots of 
cattle were fed, corn and wheat straw 
being used in each case in connection 
with the special food. The results in 
brief were that the average cost per 100 
pounds of gain for all the lots was 
$10.85, while the lot that was fed the 
dried blood cost $11.08 per 100 pounds 
of gain, or 23 cents above the average. 
Corn and wheat straw alone made the 
same amount of gain at a cost of $1.14 
less. The results of this experiment 
must be considered somewhat unfavor¬ 
able to the packing-house products as a 
ration for fattening cattle. To the Iowa 
Station also belongs the credit for a 
conclusive experiment with beef meal 
and the tankage products as to their 
value in the growing of pork. In the 
West it is the common practice to fatten 
hogs on corn alone, that being the most 
convenient and generally the cheapest 
feed available for the purpose. For pur¬ 
poses of comparison the Iowa Station 
fed five lots of hogs, one on corn alone, 
and the others on corn in connection 
with other foods, these comprising re¬ 
spectively beef meal, tankage from two 
different manufacturers, and one pro¬ 
prietary stock food. The average cost 
of a hundred pounds of gain in this ex¬ 
periment was $4.86. The lowest cost was 
in the case where tankage was fed in 
connection with corn, the cost in this 
case being $4.50 per 100 pounds of gain. 
The lot that was fed beef meal in con¬ 
nection with corn six cents below tho 
average and 30 cents less than the lot 
that was fed corn alone. After consider¬ 
ing all the elements that entered into 
the making and marketing of the hogs, 
including shrinkage in shipment, the 
bulletin that describes the experiment 
states that by the addition of “digester 
tankage,” one of the varieties used in 
the experiment, the net profits on the 
hogs Were increased over 34 per cent; 
that the addition of beef meal to the 
corn ration increased the net profits 
over 22 per cent, and that the addition 
of another brand of tankage to the corn 
ration, increased the net profits over 
seven per cent. The rations were fed in 
the proportion of five parts corn to one 
part tankage or beef meal. The experi¬ 
ments so far made with these products 
have been sufficiently satisfactory to 
arouse an interest in them, and other 
western stations are arranging to make 
a study of the subject this year and 
next. [Prof.] t. l. lyon. 
Nebraska Experiment Station. 
COLT OUT OF ORDER. 
Can you give me a recipe for an appe¬ 
tizer and tonic for a five-months-old colt 
(weaned at four months) which eats plenty 
of hay but not much grain? The colt 
seems to feel well, but is quite thin and 
looks rough. L. h. 
Dryden, N. Y. 
You weaned your colt before it was 
time. Feed him a pint of bran in two 
quarts of oats with a handful of oil meal 
twice a day. Put salt where he can get 
what he wants, and do not feed hay un¬ 
til after he eats his grain up. Have your 
druggist mix the following: Powdered 
gentian four ounces, powdered sulphate 
of iron one ounce and powdered char¬ 
coal two ounces. Give a small teaspoon¬ 
ful in each feed. c. e. hatch, v. s. 
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a political convention, brother Jake’s 
joined a football, team, and the dress¬ 
maker just told mother that she’d look 
a fright in mourning.”—Washington 
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