Abstract: A food specifically for frogs which is formulated to induce the frogs to swallow, and is characterized by a nutriment pellet or particle of selected composition and size, with strands of hair mixed with the nutriment and projecting in random distribution from the surfaces of the pellet. The frog food developed for smaller frogs may be rolled out and pelletized or otherwise compacted to a desired size according to a process which is a part of this invention.

Abstract: Animal feeds for herbivorous animals from the group consisting of cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, goats and fowl are provided containing the feed ingredients normally eaten by such animals and sodium diacetate intimately mixed therewith in sufficient amount to serve as an attractant and to enhance the taste thresholds of said feeds.

Abstract: A material used to coat earthworms or the like for facilitating the baiting of the earthworm onto a hook. The coating material comprises a wood flour of powdered wood preferably mixed with dehydrated ground worms, mussels, shrimp, clams and the like food products. The powdered wood is preferably made from hardwood such as maple or hard birch. The mixture may also be used as "chum" or for preventing the drying and breaking of sea worms.

Abstract: A process in which a liquid sodium alginate solution is prepared, passed through openings in a perforated sheet to form droplets which are permitted to fall into a body of liquid calcium ion solution such as calcium chloride where reaction between the sodium alginate and calcium chloride produces calcium alginate in the form of a tough shell on the outside of the droplets, and filtering the coated particles from the calcium solution. The invention embraces other ways of introducing the sodium alginate solution into the calcium ion solution to produce various shapes of coated particles such as shrimp, worms, etc. Our invention includes also the products which are produced having the character, the form and the chemical content as described.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for preserving proteinaceous animal food materials useful as bait for fish and crustaceans, such as crab. The animal food material is comminuted together to a finely divided state of the consistency of a thick soup with at least 4% by weight, based on the weight of the animal food material, of a polyol having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms and 2 to 6 hydroxyl groups. Edible polyols are used when the end product is to be used as a bait or foot supplement. Anti-oxidants and/or mold inhibitors are also preferably added to the animal food material/polyol mixture. The mixture is further stabilized against decay for extended periods of time when stored at ambient temperatures by incorporating into the mixture a sufficient amount of attapulgus clay to dehydrate the animal food material/polyol mixture. The resulting mixture may be extruded into a shaped form for use as a crab bait or used in granular form.

Abstract: A luminous material includes a carrier and luminous bacteria dispersed in, admixed with, confined in or applied to the carrier, the material being useful in fishery, particularly as a fish bait.

Abstract: A process is disclosed to improve the freeze-thaw stability of fish bait, such as herring, by impregnating the fish by vacuum, pressure or a combination of vacuum and pressure with a water soluble, non-toxic glycol to replace a part of the water in the fish with the glycol. The fish bait are subsequently drained and may be packed and frozen for future use.

Abstract: Insect attractive compositions contain acid-hydrolyzed defatted cereals (protein hydrolysis percent .gtoreq.70%) which have been neutralized (pH 5 to 9), preferably, after being concentrated 2 to 10 times in strongly acidic media.

Abstract: A new and improved fish bait and method for production thereof wherein grapes are treated with fish oil to create an artificial fish egg which has the same shape, flavor, consistency and other characteristics of natural fish eggs. According to the process, artificial fish eggs are manufactured by steeping grapes in an aqueous solution of fish oil and the resulting mixture is heated to a temperature in the approximate range of 87.degree. - 94.degree. C. When the grapes have acquired the necessary fish-like odor they rise to the surface of the soluton. The grapes can be of any variety, color and shape but small round grapes of the Thompson Seedless type are preferred and, if desired, can be dyed to virtually any color. Also, if the proper size grape is chosen, artificial eggs may be produced that simulate the natural eggs of a variety of fish.

Abstract: A material used to coat earthworms or the like for facilitating the baiting of the earthworm onto a hook. The coating material comprises a wood flour of powdered wood preferably mixed with dehydrated ground worms, mussels, shrimp, clams and the like food products. The powdered wood is preferably made from hard-wood such as maple or hard birch. The mixture may also be used as "chum" or for preventing the drying and breaking of sea worms.

Abstract: A process, and the product produced thereby, for making fishbait from commercially suitable and/or unsuitable salmon eggs. The process includes the steps of: (1) mixing the salmon eggs, any residual salmon egg material, and the residual salmon egg oil with a binder, such as sugar, to form a mixture which thus includes whole salmon eggs; (2) spreading the mixture into an open vessel; (3) swabbing the exposed surface of the mixture with oil; (4) heating the mixture in a vacuum, thereby cooking it into a soft, but congealed mass; (5) turning the congealed mass over and repeating steps (3) and (4); and (6) cutting the mass resulting from step (5) into strips convenient for packaging and sale.

Abstract: A dry powder of water wettable and dispersable bee attracting composition including whey, sucrose and wetting and dispersing agents. The powder is dispersed in water and sprayed onto a crop area requiring honey bee pollination during the blooming period to attract bees and to maintain them in the crop area for increased pollination. Alternatively, the powder may be dusted onto the crops.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fish bait comprising a raw fish which has been ground and pulverized in micronized form, blended with a surface active agent, and the resulting mixture dried by a process which allows the pulverized bait to remain raw, such as by freeze-drying, pulverizing the dried bait again to a micronized form, and thereafter placing the dried and micronized bait into a water permeable container and sealing the same. When placed in the water, the bait thus manufactured, allows the taste and smell thereof to be dispersed throughout the water and thereby attracts a desired fish.

Abstract: An insecticidal roach bait which is particularly preferred by roaches, including American and German roaches, comprising from about 20-54.75% by weight of a non-repellent binder, from about 79.75-45% by weight of a food attractant selected from dry dog food, maltose, brown sugar, and mixtures thereof, and from about 0.25-5% by weight of 0,0-diethyl-0-(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl) phosphorothioate.

Abstract: A method of producing fertilizer by taking manure which comprises numerous species of beetles, mixing other organic waste with said manure and allowing the stockpile to stand for a predetermined time, feeding said stockpile through a crusher into a drier, subjecting the organic matter to a secondary crusher, conveying the finely crushed material to a second stockpile, allowing said second stockpile to stand for a predetermined time then re-passing the organic matter through the drier and the secondary crusher.

Abstract: A fish bait and method of production thereof wherein a nonhomogeneous body having a toughened exterior skinlike structure surrounding a gelatinous or fluid body is formed by mixing a gel-forming proteinaceous material and water at a temperature above the sol-gel transition temperature, forming the proteinaceous mass into the desired shape, cooling the shaped mass and treating the exterior surface of the shaped mass with a polymeric tanning agent such as a sulfited melamine formaldehyde resin, resulting in a relatively insoluble skin surrounding a relatively soluble fluid gel center structure. Fluidizing agents reactive with the polymeric tanning agents may be added to alter the gel characteristics, and salmon egg waste material and other fish cannery wastes may be incorporated as part or all of the proteinaceous material to provide the characteristic odor associated with salmon eggs.

Abstract: Fish eggs which have been rendered hard and opaque by protein coagulation are made into fish egg bait by reacting them with an aqueous solution of urea under conditions predetermined to swell and plasticize the eggs and render them translucent.

Abstract: Fish eggs which have been rendered hard and substantially opaque by coagulation of their protein content are made into fish egg bait by treating them with an aqueous acid solution of urea, i.e. with an acid salt of urea, and under conditions predetermined to swell and plasticize the eggs and render them substantially translucent.

Abstract: Food products comprising solid foodstuffs and more especially meat, meat by-products or other proteinaceous materials are contained in an aqueous phase of near neutral pH value thickened or gelled by pectic substances having a degree of esterification (methoxylation) of less than 20%. Where a rigid gel is required the pectic substance is preferably reacted with a di- or tri-valent metal ion, notably calcium ion and also with a sequestrant. The pectic substance may be a purified or isolated pectate or a natural pectin source, for example citrus peel, in which the pectic substance has the required low level of esterification, for example by enzymatic or chemical treatment of the natural material.

Abstract: Dry pet food may be stored along with semi-moist pet food without loss of integrity by producing a dry pet food utilizing specific ingredients to impart stability. Thus, the dry pet food is produced from proteinaceous ingredients, amylaceous ingredients, as well as a stabilization system consisting of a sugar, an edible acid, and an antimycotic.

Abstract: Shredded, separated trash from which a portion of recyclable materials have been retrieved and recycled back into industry, leaving only unusable waste material, is compressed into a bale having a density sufficient to cause the bale to immediately sink in salt water and having a shape causing it to remain at the spot on the ocean floor to which it has sunk, immovable by ocean currents. The bale is sprayed both inside and out with an organic material which serves as food for micro-organisms which use the sunken bales of trash as feeding stations.

Abstract: A cohesive mass is prepared from substantially dry fish food mixture, containing at least fish meal, pulverized freeze dried fish eggs, and water. The resulting fish bait composition is further modified by adding a water activated natural plant binder such as a vegetable gum, a starch, a dextrin or other like material. The pulverized fish eggs are water activated to contribute natural animal binding materials. The resulting mass has sufficient cohesiveness to be retained on the hook during casting or throwing movement of the hook and during water entry of the baited hook. The fish bait composition thereafter undergoes controlled dispersion in the water to attract the fish.

Abstract: A raw fish bait product, and method of making same, consisting almost entirely of a relatively solidly compacted body of comminuted, dried out raw fish remnants having structural integrity sufficient to maintain its basic form and shape when submerged in water for substantial periods of time.