A NEW OR IMPROVED ANTISEPTIC FERTILIZER
Year: 1874

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LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED ANTISEPTIC FERTILIZER."-
A communication from abroad by Robert Augustus Chesebrough,
of the City and State of New York, United States of America.
Sealed the 12th January 1875, and dated the 13th July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Newton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th July 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED ANTISEPTIC
FERTILIZER," to be as follows:-
This new fertilizing agent, which forms the subject of the present
Invention, is composed of animal charcoal or bone black and hydro-

page_text: carbon oil mixed together, the oil being taken up and retained in the
pores of the bone black. The proportions of each which it is preferred
to use are about seventy per cent. in weight of bone black and about
thirty per cent. in weight of oil, but I do not confine myself to these
proportions, as it is obvious that different proportions may be better
adapted to different classes of vegetable growth.
pores of the bone black. The proportions of each which it is preferred
to use are about seventy per cent. in weight of bone black and about
thirty per cent. in weight of oil, but I do not confine myself to these
proportions, as it is obvious that different proportions may be better
adapted to different classes of vegetable growth.
Bone black, it is well known, has heretofore been largely employed as
the base for a class of fertilizers known as "superphosphates," hence
its value may be conceded for such uses.
It has been proved by experiment that petroleum is an antiseptic, an
insecticide, and is destructive. to cryptogamic and fungus growths. It
has also been discovered that the oil when mixed with bone black is not
injurious to vegetation.
By the combination above referred to is obtained a fertilizer which is
also a preservative against those insects, parasites, and creatures of
fungus origin which develope beneath the soil and oftentimes destroy the
life of the plant, such for instance as the "potatoc rot," the " boring
worm," the "philoxera," or grape vine pest," and a host of others.
If it be true, as held by high scientific authority to be the fact, that
"the developement of destructive pests on the plant itself similar to the
cotton or cabbage worms is due to pernicious or poisonous nourishment
received from the soil rather than to outside atmospheric influence," the
use of the new antiseptic fertilizer will prevent the developement and
ravages of these outside parasites as well as of those developed within
the soil.
To manufacture the fertilizer it is only necessary to intimately mix
the oil with the bone black in about the proportions indicated, the bone
black having been first ground to the fineness of fine sporting gun-
powder, although the degree of fineness is not of much importance.
The best oil to use is the heavy, natural, crude reduced petroleum,
rejecting the lighter oils and distillates as inferior.
To apply the fertilizer it should be mixed say half and half with
natural earth, and the compound then intimately mingled with the soil
around the roots of the plant or with that in which the seed is or is to
be deposited, but experience will soon teach the user the best way to
apply it in cach particular case.

page_text: The Invention covers the combination of bone black and hydrocarbon
oil in all proportions, whether other substances be made part of the
admixture or not.
The Invention is applicable to all vegetable growths in horticulture
SPECIFICATION .in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty.
cighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
ANTISEPTIC FERTILIZER," being a communication to me from abroad by
Robert Augustus Cheseborough, of the City and State of New York, United
States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Edward Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say):
This new fertilizing agent, which forms the subject of the present
Invention, is composed of animal charcoal or bone black and hydro-
carbon oil mixed together, the oil being taken up and retained in the
pores of the bone black. The proportions of cach which it is preferred
to use are about seventy per cent. in weight of bone black and about
thirty per cent. in weight of oil, but I do not confine myself to these
proportions, as it is obvious that different proportion's may be better
adapted to different classes of vegetable growth.
°
Bone black, it is well known, has heretofore been largely employed as
the base for a class of fertilizers known as superphosphates," hence
its value may be conceded for such uses.
It has been proved by experiment that petroleum is an antiseptic, an
insecticide, and is destructive to cryptogamic and fungus growths. It 1
has also been discovered that the oil when mixed with bone black is not
injurious to vegetation.
By the combination above referred to is obtained a fertilizer which is
also a preservative against those insects, parasites, and creatures of
fungoid origin which develop beneath the soil and oftentimes destroy the 2
life of the plant, such for instance as the "potatoe rot," the "boring
worm," the "philoxera," or "grape vine pest," and a host of others.
.
If it be true, as held by high scientific authority to be the fact, that.
"the development of destructive pests on the plant itself similar to the
cotton or cabbage worms is due to pernicious or poisonous nourishment 2
received from the soil rather than to outside atmospheric influence," the
use of the new antiseptic fertilizer will prevent the development and
ravages of these outside parasites as well as of those developed within
the soil.
To manufacture the said fertilizer it is only necessary to intimately a
mix the oil with the bone black in about the proportions indicated, the
bone black having been first ground to the fineness of fine sporting gun-
powder, although the degree of fineness is not of much importance.
The best oil to use is the heavy, natural, crude reduced petroleum,
rejecting the lighter oils and distillates as inferior.
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page_text: To apply the fertilizer it should be mixed, say half and half, with
natural carth, and the compound then intimately mingled with the soil
around the roots of the plant or with that in which the seed is or is to
be deposited, but experience will soon teach the user the best way to
apply it in each particular case.
The Invention covers the combination of bone black and hydrocarbon
oil in all proportions, whether other substances be made part of the
admixture or not.
The Invention is applicable to all vegetable growths in horticulture
and fancy gardening.
Having now described this Invention of "A New or Improved Anti-
septic Fertilizer," and having explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, what I claim as the Invention secured to me by the
above in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination of hydrocarbon
oil with bone black or animal charcoal or other carbonaceous matter for
the purpose of producing an antiseptic fertilizer, as and for the purposes
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twelfth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
five.