AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MANURE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Pannell Forlong, of the City of Bristol,
Manure Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE
OF MANURE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Pannell Forlong-
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition; on the
31st October 1855
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I, RICHARD PANNELL FORLONG, of the City of Bristol, Manure Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED,
MANUFACTURE OF MANURE" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a manure, which shall not,
only be capable of fertilizing the land, but also of protecting the seed sown or,
young plant growing in the manured land from the turnip fly and other vermin..
To this end, I take bone dust and pulverized sulphur, and having mixed them
together subject the mixture to heat sufficient to fuse the sulphur, and cause a
thorough combination of the materials. When this mixture has, cooled and
solidified, I, grind it between a pair of French stones, and before using it I
prefer to mix with it gypsum or other inert substance.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Pannell Forlong in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
PANNELL FORLONG, of the City of Bristol, Manure Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Pannell Forlong, Her special license that I, the said Richard Pannell
Forlong, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Pannell Forlong, 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 "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MANURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Richard Pannell Forlong, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, 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 Richard Pannell Forlong, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
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The object of this Invention is to manufacture a manure, which shall not
only be capable of fertilizing the land, but also of protecting the end shoot or
young plant growing in the manured land from the turnip fly and other vermin.
To this end, I take bone dust and pulverized sulphur, and mix them together in
the proportion of equal parts by weight of bone dust to equal parts by weight of
sulphur. This mixture I subject by preference to a furnace heat, just suffi-
cient to fuse the sulphur and cause a thorough combination of the materials.
When this effect is obtained, I remove the compound and set it aside to cool
and solidify. After the compound has cooled I grind it to powder between a
pair of French stones. The powdered manure thus produced will be found too

page_text: rich for use unless applied to the land very sparingly and with great care;
therefore propose to combine therewith before using it some comparatively
inert substance which will act as a diluent, and thereby facilitate the appli-
cation of the manure to the land. For this purpose I prefer to employ gypsum,
mixing it and the compound manure together in about equal proportions. It
will be understood that other inert substances may be substituted for the
gypsum, the material employed being selected according to the nature of the
land to be dressed.
Having now set forth the nature and object of my Invention of "An
Improved Manufacture of Manure," and explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in part
recited Letters Patent I claim, combining together bone dust and sulphur in
the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Pannell Forlong, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
RICH P. FORLONG. (L.S.)