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Definition of Blood meal
1. Noun. The dried and powdered blood of animals.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Meal
Literary usage of Blood meal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"It will be noticed that in Johnson's experiments the horny materials proved to
be decidedly inferior as fertilizers to the blood-meal. ..."
2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"In the latter case the interval between the blood meal and oviposition will be
about the same as when it has fed on blood soon after being fertilized. ..."
3. Productive Feeding of Farm Animals by Fritz Wilhelm Woll (1921)
"Dried blood or blood meal contains over 80 per cent of protein, sometimes as high as
... blood meal (blood flour) is used to some extent in feeding calves, ..."
4. Soils and Soil Fertility by Andrew Robeson Whitson, Harlow Leslie Walster (1912)
"Apply the blood meal at the rate of 5'00 pounds to the acre. (Nitrate of soda at
the rate of 125 pounds to the acre may be substituted for the blood meal). ..."
5. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"blood meal.—blood meal, also called blood flour or dried blood, is the richest
in protein of all the packing house by-products, usually carrying over 80 per ..."
6. Manures and Fertilizers: A Text-book for College Students and a Work of by Homer Jay Wheeler (1913)
"... with oats, that there was no material difference in the efficiency of the
nitrogen in leather meal and in blood meal. This result is, however, ..."
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