Abstract: The method of orally feeding animals including humans Lactobacillus lactis NRRL B-5628 to restrict the growth of other digestive system (such as mouth, crop and/or stomach) bacteria is described. NRRL B-5628 is particularly useful in the treatment of scouring, diarrhea or colibacillosis in baby pigs and other newborn animals by reducing the intestinal population of E. coli as the native coliform bacterium. The oral feeding of NRRL B-5628 is also used in farrowing sows to reduce intestinal bacteria and in turn to reduce such bacterial populations in the newborn pigs. Mastitis-metrites syndrome in gilts, sows and cows is reduced by such oral feeding.

Abstract: A mixture of predominantly finely divided clay principally consisting of aluminum silicate and sodium bentonite in combination with small amounts of minerals, including iron and zinc, and vitamins, particularly adapted for application to the floor of a farrowing house to prevent knee abrasions to small pigs, to absorb excess moisture, and to provide a food supplement for the baby pigs.

Abstract: An ice cream and fruit confectionery product that is mounted on a stick. A hole is bored in edible fruit to remove at least a portion of the fruit's core. The fruit is mounted on the stick with the bored hole being disposed substantially coaxial to the stick's handle, a seat being provided on top of the stick to hold the fruit in position thereon when the stick is held vertically upright by a user. The seat includes an upstanding annular wall interengaged with the fuit when the fruit is seated on the stick. Thus, the fruit is restrained from axial downward movement relative to the stick when the stick is held upright by the seat`s floor, and is restrained from transverse movement relative to the stick by the upstanding annular wall. The bored-out core of the fruit is filled with ice cream, the ice cream also being supported from underneath by the seat's floor if the hole has been bored completely through the fruit.

Abstract: A food for fish and invertebrates which is compatible with the ecology in a closed circuit salt water aquarium containing both fish and invertebrates contains broken sea urchin eggs, water, sodium nitrite, sodium chloride, and citric acid. The food is compounded by breaking the sea urchin eggs and blending them with the preservatives and water, and by pasturizing the blended material. In preferred form, the food is also homogenized.

Abstract: The invention relates to non-caloric saccharine sweetening compositions using only saccharine as the artificial sweetener, with the undesired bitter aftertaste of the saccharine being eliminated while avoiding sourness present in other calorie-free sweetening compositions. This is accomplished according to the invention by a composition of saccharine, glucono delta lactone and an edible bicarbonate.

Abstract: A process for treating plant organic matter particles to increase the digestability thereof by ruminants including mixing the organic particles with water, a nontoxic acid catalyst to produce a Ph lower than 3.0, and a metallic catalyst of either iron or manganese, oxidizing the mixture under elevated pressure and temperature to fragment the cellulose molecules and break the lignin-cellulose bond, and hydrolizing the oxidized mixture under elevated pressure and temperature to convert at least a portion of the cellulose molecules to saccharides and saccharide acids.

Abstract: This invention provides a process for preparing a baked cracker which comprises placing a quantity of bakable dough having a rubbery consistency which tends to resume its original shape when free of compressive forces between two surfaces, compressing said quantity of dough therebetween by bringing said surfaces together for a predetermined distance and heating the dough while it is contained between said surfaces until baking is completed. There is also provided an apparatus for preparing baked products comprising a pair of plates and means for maintaining the surfaces of said plates a predetermined distance one from the other.

Abstract: A waste heat exhaust system for side burner regenerative coke oven batteries, comprises a coke oven battery which has a chimney flue connected to one end of the battery and includes a plurality of flue gas ducts which extend in a longitudinal direction and are connected at their one ends to the chimney flue. A plurality of transverse first flues of unequal length have outer ends which are connected to respective waste gas lines which are located on the pusher side of the battery. The first flues extend transversely to the flue gas ducts and they are connected at their inner ends to respective ones of the gas ducts. A similar set of second flues of unequal length have outer ends which are connected to the waste gas lines on the coke side of the battery and they have inner ends which are connected to respective ones of the gas ducts.

Abstract: An improved liquid feed supplement composition for ruminant animals and a method for its preparation wherein water, urea and an aldehyde are reacted in the presence of a catalyst which is effective to promote a reaction between the urea and the aldehyde and which also provides nutrients for the ruminant, and in the presence of molasses.

Abstract: A novel artificial sweetener compound, 3-(m-hydroxyphenyl)phloropropiophenone and a process for preparing same, as well as other 3-arylphloropropiophenones, from aryl aldehydes and phloroglucinol.