AN IMPROVED MANURE
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Frazer Corkran, of 110, Cannon Street, in
'the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANURE."
-A communication from abroad by Andrew Archbald, residing at
Florance in the Kingdom of Ital-
Sealed the 20th March 1874, and dated the 7th January 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Frazer Corkran
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th January 1874.
I, JOHN FRAZER CORKRAN, of 110, Cannon Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MANURE," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is an improved manure containing large
fertilizing properties which free themselves by moisture after application
upon or to the soil.
The manure is composed of pine wood sawdust and animal blood,
mixed and dried as soon after the animal is slaughtered as possible.

page_text: The method adopted is as follows:-Take any quantity of ordinary
pine sawdust, place it in an open vessel or tray. Pour the blood direct
upon it and stir the mass until the sawdust has absorbed all that it will
take up. Then dry either by exposure to the sun or artificial heat,
repeating the operation if necessary.
The result of the above is, that coagulation is prevented and all the
fertilizing properties of the blood preserved without offensive smell or
fear of putrescence, and in a form most easily taken up by the earth
because coagulation is thereby arrested.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said John Frazer Corkran in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FRAZER CORKRAN, of 110, Cannon Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Frazer Corkran, Her
special licence that I, the said John Frazer Corkran, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Frazer
Corkran, 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, a
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 MANURE,” communicated to me from abroad by Andrew
Archbald, residing at Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said John Frazer Corkran, 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
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the

page_text: 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 Frazer Corkran, 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 :-
The object of this Invention is an improved manure containing large
fertilizing properties which free themselves by moisture after application
upon or to the soil.
The manure is composed of pine wood sawdust and animal blood
mixed and dried as soon after the animal is slaughtered as possible.
The method adopted is as follows:-Take any quantity of ordinary
pine wood sawdust, placing it in an open vessel or tray. Pour the blood
direct upon it and stir the mass until the sawdust has absorbed all that
it will take up. Then dry either by exposure to the sun or artificial
heat, repeating the operation if necessary.
The result of the above is that coagulation is prevented and all the
fertilizing properties of the blood preserved without offensive smell or
fear of putrescence, and in a form most easily taken up by the earth
because coagulation is arrested.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that claim is made to
the exclusive preparation and use of an improved manure composed
of pine wood sawdust and animal blood, in the manner and for the
purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Frazer Corkran, have here.
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, One thousand