IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOOD FOR ANIMALS WHEN INDIAN CORN IS USED
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, IIENRY
MANDEVILLE MEADE, of the City of New York, in the United States of America,
Gentleman, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifteenth day of April, in the ninth year of Her ieign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Mandeville Meade, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Mandeville Meade,
my exors, admors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said Henry
Mandeville Meade, my exors, admors, or assigns, should át any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOOD FOR ANIMALS WHEN INDIAN CORN IS USED,"
communicated to me by a Foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Henry Mandeville Meade, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at laige appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
Henry Mandeville Meade, do hereby declare that the nature of the Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statements thereof, that is to say '-
In preparing food for cows, sheep, pigs, and other animals when Indian corn
is employed according to this Invention, in place of simply employing the grain
of Indian corn, I also employ the cone (called the cob) on which the grain
grows, and I grind them together (or separately, and afterwards combino
them) by which a valuable compound product will be obtained for the food of
animals, which may be fed either dry or combined with water. The grain
only or the meal of the grain only is not a good food to feed animals on con-
tinuously as their chief or only food. But when the meal of the grain is com-
bined with the ground cones (called the cobs), on which the grain grows, the
combined product is a good food to feed animals on continuously as then chief
food, and they may be fattened therewith with great advantage in consequence
of the cheapness of such food and its highly nutritious qualities. And this
combination of the meal of the grain with the ground cones (called cobs)
entirely obviates the injurious consequences resulting to animals from feeding
them with Indian corn, or the meal thereof, alone as their chief food.
And what I claim is this combining of the meal of the grain with the
ground cones (called cobs) in preparing food for animals when Indian corn is
used.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Mandeville Meade, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord Oue thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
HENRY MANDEVILLE (LS) MEADE.
Taken and acknowledged by Heniy
Mandeville Meade (party hereto), at
the City of New York, in the United
States of America, this 28th day of

page_text: William Henry Ritchie, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, maketh oath and saith that he is acquainted with the manner and
character of the handwriting of Henry Mandeville Mcade, of the City of Now
York, in the United States of America, Gentleman. And this deponent
further saith that the names or signature "Henry Mandeville Meade," set,
subscribed, or written at the foot of the Specification marked A, hereunto
annexed, and dated the twenty-eighth lay of September, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-six, and purporting to be acknowledged by him, the said
Henry Mandeville Meade, before Anthony Barclay, Esquire, Пer Britannic
Majesty's Consul at New York aforesaid, is of the proper handwriting of the
said Henry Mandeville Meade. And this Deponent further saith that he is
also acquainted with the manner and character of the handwriting of the said
Anthony Barclay, and that the signature "Anth Darclay," set, subscribed, or
wiitten in the margin of the said Specification, whereby it is stated that the
said Specification was acknowledged by the said Henry Mandeville Meado,
before the said Anthony Barclay as Her Butanuic Majesty's Consul at New
York aforesaid, on the said Twenty-eighth day of September, is of the proper
handwriting of the said Anthony Barclay.
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