AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, PIGS, DOGS, POULTRY, AND THE LIKE "
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Herbert Cox, of the Army Veterinary Department,
of Matlock, in the County of Derby, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, PIGS, DOGS, POULTRY,
AND THE LIKE
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Herbert Cox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1881.
JOHN HERBERT Cox, of the Army Veterinary Department, of Matlock, in the
County of Derby. "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE,
SHEEP, PIGS, DOGS, POULTRY, AND THE LIKE."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of condensed food for horses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, dogs, poultry, and the like, in a form suitable for long keeping and
easy transport. The condensed food consists mainly in the admixture of grains
with certain condiments and other substances calculated to assist digestion and
maintain the animals in good condition.
The ingredients used in preparing the food are somewhat varied according as
the food is intended for herbivora, omnivora, carnivora, or gallinacea, the product
being so concentrated that it affords nutrition nearly double that of ordinary
food.
For horses and other herbivora or omnivora the food is composed as follows:
Grains, such as oats, peas, beans, barley, or malt, rice,
Indian corn, or maize, or other grains known as chenna,
kooltie, cholum, oorud, mitchay-cottay, oolandoo, dals,
cumboo, raggi, or towers, or mixtures of these
Condiments. Mowha flower (bassia longifolia or bassia
latifolia)
-
-
Ground nut (arachi hypogoa), cashew nut, cocoa nut oil
cake, gingelly oil cake, or mixtures of these
Linseed
56 per cent.
18 per cent.
-
18 per cent.
5
per cent.
=

page_text: Palas fruit (butea frondosa)
Chiretta
->
For carnivora, such as dogs:
Grains, as before
-
Flesh or meat of ox, buffalo, sheep, or other ruminants, or
of herbivora, such as horse, or camel, or mixtures of
these
-
Condiments, as before
-
Nut or oil cake, as before, or linseed
Fenugreck
-
per cent.
* per cent.
56 per cent.
-
12 per cent.
-
10 per cent.
-
18
per cent.
Salt
Chiretta
-
Palas fruit
Bibasic phosphates or carbonate of lime
For gallinacea:-
:-
Grains, as before
Condiments, as before
Nut or oil cake, as before, or linseed
Fenugreck
Palas fruit
Chiretta
-
-
->
per cent.
1 per cent.
+ per cent.
per cent.
2 per cent.
-
60
per cent.
18
per cent.
18
per cent.
-
1 per cent.
* per cent.
per cent.
2
per cent.
Bibasic phosphates or carbonate of lime
The ingredients are cleaned, ground, well mixed together with a little water an
made into a stiff paste, the flesh or meat for carnivora being steamed or cooked
before admixture. The paste is then moulded under great pressure into blocks o
cakes of convenient shape and size, which are baked till they are perfectly hard
and dry. It is convenient to mould these blocks or cakes with holes throug
them so that they can be strung together and hung from the saddle, a horse o
animal being thus enabled to carry its own food supply for several days. Mea
being added to the other ingredients the food can be prepared as dog biscuits
Food manufactured as above described will keep for any period. When required
for use it is broken up and given to the animals either dry or moistened with
water.

page_text: cakes of convenient shape and size, which are baked till they are perfectly hard
and dry. It is convenient to mould these blocks or cakes with holes through
them so that they can be strung together and bung from the saddle, a horse or
animal being thus enabled to carry its own food supply for several days. Meal
being added to the other ingredients the food can be prepared as dog biscuits.
Food manufactured as above described will keep for any period. When required
for use it is broken up and given to the animals either dry or moistened with
water.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I claim,―
The above described manufacture of condensed food consisting of the admixture
of grains with condiments and other substances in the proportions set forth, such
mixture being formed into a stiff paste and compressed into blocks or cakes which
are then baked.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Herbert Cox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.