Improved Pasture Fertilizer and Moss Killer.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improved Pasture Fertilizer and Moss Killer.
I, JAMES LOGAN, Estate Factor, Coltness, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide an improved pasture fertilizer which
may also serve for killing moss and the lower classes of plants or weeds especially
those classified as sphagnum and fungoid diseases in general.
The fertilizer is composed of a mixture of phosphates such as Belgian phosphate
with sulphate of iron, sulphate or muriate of potassium and sulphate of ammonium,
and the addition of sand to facilitate distribution. The proportions of the several
ingredients may be largely varied, but the following is a suitable composition, viz.,
40 per centum of tricalcic phosphate or Belgian phosphate or any ground
mineral phosphate approximating in composition thereto.
20 per centum of crystallized ferrous sulphate.
30 per centum silica or sand.
5 per centum potassium sulphate or potassium chloride.
5 per centum of ammonium sulphate.
In lieu of the potassium salt about 10 per centum of kainit may be used.
In addition to its properties as a fertilizer and moss killer the composition may
be used to invigorate and improve the higher classes of grasses and to restore and
maintain the fertility of the soil in regard to plant food for a series of years. It
is also a complete general manure for pasture lands and hay meadows; and it
further acts as a preventative of potato disease and the disease known as finger-
and-toe" in turnips.
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I, JAMES LOGAN, Estate Factor, Coltness, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:
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page_text: plants or weeds especially those classified as sphagnum and fungoid diseases in
general, and also to provide an improved pasture fertilizer.
The moss killer and fertilizer is composed of a mixture of phosphates such as
Belgian phosphate with sulphate of iron, sulphate or muriate of potassium and
sulphate of ammonium, and the addition of sand to facilitate distribution. The
proportions of the several ingredients may be largely varied, but the following is
a suitable composition, viz.,
40 per centum of tricalcić phosphate or Belgian. phosphate or any ground
mineral phosphate approximating in composition thereto.
20 per centum of crystallized ferrous sulphate.
30 per centum silica or sand.
5 per centum potassium sulphate or potassium chloride.
5 per centum of ammonium sulphate.
In lieu of the potassium salt about 10 per centum of kainit may be used.
In addition to its properties as a moss killer and fertilizer the composition may be
used to invigorate and improve the higher classes of grasses and to restore and
maintain the fertility of the soil in regard to plant food for a series of years. It is
also a general manure for pasture lands and hay meadows; and it further acts as
a preventative of potato disease and the disease known as finger-and-toe "
turnips.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improved moss killer and pasture fertilizer composed of the ingredients
described in or about the proportions set forth.
Data L ,
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WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicant.