IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HORSES. CATTLE, AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Scott, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Coach Proprietor, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HORSES. CATTLE, AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 22nd January 1869, and dated the 1st August 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st August 1868.
I, JOHN SCOTT, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Coach.
Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, AND OTHER,
ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in preparing food for horses, cattle, and other-
animals in the following manner:-I take grain of any kind suitable:
for any given class of animals, and grind such grain and mix it with
bran, chopped hay, or straw, or chaff, or other cheap ingredient or:
ingredients; I then make the mixture into a paste with water, in which
I dissolve a little salt, and ferment such paste with yeast or barm; I
then make the said paste into cakes or loaves and bake them. I finish.

page_text: the preparation of the food by breaking or crushing the said loaves.
Sulphur and saltpetre, or either of them, may be added to the aforesaid
mixture if required.
Food prepared as herein-before described is (owing to its increase in
bulk and weight during preparation) cheaper than the ordinary kinds of
food, and is also presented to the animal in a more easily digestible
form.
The compositions of ingredients and the proportions in which they are
mixed vary according to the kind of animal to be fed.
The essence of my Invention consists in making the ingredients used
into a paste and in fermenting and baking it as aforesaid.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th January 1869..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SCOTT, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Coach Proprietor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Scott, Her special licence
that I, the said John Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Scott, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Scott, my
executors or administrators,, by, an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Scott, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to
say:-
My Invention consists in preparing food for horses, cattle, and other
animals in the following manner:-I take grain of
any kind suitable
for any given class of animals, and grind such grain and mix it with
bran, chopped hay, or straw, or chaff, or other cheap ingredient or
ingredients; I then make the mixture into a paste with water, in which
I dissolve a little salt; I then make the said paste into cakes or loaves
and bake them, or the said paste may be fermented with yeast or barm
before being baked. I finish the preparation of the food by breaking
or crushing the said loaves. Sulphur and saltpetre, or either of them,
may be added to the aforesaid mixture if required.
Food prepared as herein-before described is (owing to its increase in
bulk and weight during preparation) cheaper than the ordinary kinds of
food, and is also presented to the animal in a more easily digestible
form.
The composition of ingredients and the proportions in which they are
mixed vary according to the kind of animal to be fed; but in practice
I find the following ingredients and proportions thereof answer well :-
One bushel of ground wheat, one peck of ground beans, one peck of
ground Indian corn, one peck of ground barley, fourteen pounds of
bran, one pound of boiled potatoes, one half pint of linseed meal,
seven pounds of chaff or chopped hay or straw, two ounces of salt, a
small quantity of sulphur or saltpetre if likely to be beneficial, with
aniseed or any other flavouring ingredient. The whole is then mixed
with water, and either fermented with yeast or barm or not, and baked
into cakes or loaves.
The essence of my Invention consists in making the ingredients used
into a paste and in baking it as aforesaid.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein-before described, as they

page_text: may be varied to suit the kind of animal to be fed, or varied to suit the
same animal under different circumstances without departing from the
nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the mode of
preparing food for horses, cattle, and other animals from grain and other
ingredients, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Scott, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.