Blood as Food.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4400, 9 February 1883, Page 3

Blood as Food.

The following extract from the Lancet seems to prove that the idea of converting "into .a. nutritious, food, the immense quantify of blood now ; wasted,, has to a certain extent proved successful, even with herbivorous animals :—The blood was rapidly dried sufficiently to enable it to be ground in a coffee-mill, in which state it was found to keep well, and to be destitute of odour and taste. It was then mixed in small quantities with other food and fed to lambs which had been abandoned by their mothers. Lambs kept on beetroot, , hay, &c, only, steadily lost flesh^'while those which received a portion of the powdered blood mixed with their food increased to three times their original weight and connoisseurs said they had never seen as fine lambs of their age. The animals surpassed their fellows who had been suckled by their dams in weight and size, and. their coat of wool became doubled in thick ness. Calves are now being experimented upon, and the process promises well. It appears that this system of alimentation is applicable to man also. In the case of a ricketty child of eighteen months, the. results, have been moßt encouraging. These experiments are most valuable from an economic point of view, as the saving of milk in rearing young stock, and the utilisation of so much waste materials, is of immense importance. '