IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING SEED AND IN PREPARING MATERIALS USED FOR FERTILIZING LAND, AND FOR AIDING VEGETATION
Year: 1845

page_text: ولد
US
JULIEN VAN OOST, of Gaidbrugge, near Ghent, but now of Osnaburg Street,
Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of October, in the ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Augustus Julien Van Oost, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Augustus Julien Van
Oost, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Augustus
Julien Van Oost, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time, and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in all Your
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, and in the Isles of Man, Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, & Sark, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING
SEED AND IN PREPARING MATERIALS USED FOR FERTILIZING LAND, AND FOR AIDING
VEGETATION;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the
said Augustus Julien Van Oost, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
Augustus Julien Van Oost, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof; that is to say :-
The object of the first part of my Invention is, the application of a coating
(to the corn and other seed) of sulphuro-azoted principles, and of gelatine,
which, being absorbed by the young plant or acting as a ferment, aid vegeta-
tion in a considerable degree.
And the first part of the Invention consists of employing a solution of
gelatine, albumine, fibrine, or caseine, together with such preparation of
matters as hereafter explained as a coating. And in order that this part of the
Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to explain the means pursued
by me. I prepare a solution of gelatine with water, by mixing two pounds and
a quarter gelatine with six gallons of water, to this I add two pounds and a
quarter of the meal of malt or wheat, and in this I mix the corn or other seed
which has been first moistened in a solution of ammoniacal salt, or of carbonate
of potash at a density of ten degrees, or seventy grains of the hydrometer; and
the grains of corn or seed being well covered on their surfaces by such pre-
paration of gelatine they will adhere together, and in order to separate them I
apply the following mixture in a state of. powder, which, adhering to the
gelatinous grains, becomes a coating to each grain, by which means is adapted
to each grain matter capable of acting as ferment and moderating the same.
I take fifty pounds of ashes, such as come chemically nearest the ashes produced
by burning of the plant, the seed of which I am about to prepare; fifty pounds
of carbonate of lime or lime slacked in the air; one pound sulphate of iron;
twenty-five pounds ground bones; twenty-five pounds pidgeon dung, and I mix
these matters well together. I dissolve in six gallons of water, or, what is
better, of putrid urine, one pound gelatine and of the following salts:
half a pound of sulphate of potash; half a pound of carbonate of potash;
half a pound of phosphate of soda; half a pound of nitrate of potash; half
a pound of ammoniacal salt; half a pound sulphate of soda; and I combine
these matters with the ashes and other matters above mentioned, by which a
damp powder is obtained, which is dryed at one hundred and fifty degrees of
Farenheit; and these matters when in a state of powder are to. be used as above
mentionned, namely: to mix with the grain or seeds previously prepared as
explained, by which means each grain will become coated over with the powder,
and the grains will no longer adhere together, the quantity of the powder used
being such as to coat over the grains of corn or seed which is being prepared.
It should be stated that, although I have described the use of gelatine only,

page_text: the other sulphuro-azoted matters above mentionned may be used in place
thereof or in combination therewith. The object of using the one or the other
is to give an additional quantity of a sulphuro-azoted principle to that already
possessed by the grain or seed, as caseine in peas, beans, kidney beans, fibrine
in corn, albumine in seed. It will be understood from the above description,
that the plant, as a grain or seed germinates, is surrounded by a quantity of
food, and is not at first dependent on the surrounding soil; and I would state
that, although I have been particular in giving exact proportions to carry out
the first part of my Invention, I do not confine myself thereto so long as
gelatine, albumine, fibrine, or caseine, or matters containing them are applied
so as to adhere to the grains, together with matters suitable for modifying the
fermentation as herein explained; and to give further explanation of the nature
of this Invention, I will state that the juice of vegetables, the blood, milk,
cheese, flesh of animals, and generaly all organic liquids which have a tend-
ance to corruption, fermentation, or putrefaction, owe this proprety only to
the sulphuro-azoted principles albumine, fibrine, caseine, which the oxigen of
the air converts into ferment as soon as it meets them in a suitable state.
In carrying out the second part of my Invention, that of preparing manure,
I take four parts ashes, such as above mentioned, according to the nature of
the crop about to be grown; two parts pulverised rubbish of buildings; two
parts pulverised coals or coke; two parts lime slaked in the air; one part of
gelatine. To one hunderd pounds of this mixture I add one pound sulphate
of iron; one pound sulphate of potash; one pound nitrate of potash; one
pound common salt; half a pound phosphate of soda. I dissolve the gelatine
and the aforesaid salts in six gallons of water; in this solution I mix the
before-mentionned substances; I dry the whole at a temperature of one hunderd
and fifty degrees of Farenheit; reduce the same to powder, and apply the same
to land to be manured. As the proportion of manure must depend on the nature
and quality of the soil, the quantity for all lands cannot be determined; in good
ground the preparation of the seed alone, without any manure, may do for
some time; other lands must be manured in a greater or less degree accord-
ing to the quantity in which they possess the inorganic and organic principles
of which the plant desired to be produced is composed; therefore establishing
the forgoing for basis, I lay down two hunderd and fifty pounds to one acre,.
as an average proportion. I would remark that most of the above matters have
before been used in preparing manures; I do not therefore claim them
separately, nor do I confine myself to use all in the same manner, as other mat-
ters may be combined with such preparations of manures. It should be under-
stood, that in making the manure I substitute common gelatine (gelatine crute)

page_text: in solution, or other azoted matters closely mixed with the salts and inorganic
principles it contains and which may be discovered by chemical analysis, to
the organic and ammoniacal compounds.
The peculiar character of this the second part of my Invention consists in
the use of sulphate of iron, of gelatine, and of the sulphuro-azoted matters
above mentionned, and in their close mixture with the alkaline salts and
inorganic matters as herein described as to favour a slow and regular
decomposition.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustus Julien Van Oost, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of the month of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
AUGUSTUS JULIEN VAN (L.S.) OOST.
Taken and acknowledged by Augustus
Julien Van Oost (party hereto), at
Ghent, in the kingdom of Belgium,
this 4th day of April. 1846. before me.
Philippus Augustus D'Homlt, of North Place, Regent's Park Basin, in the
County of Middelsex, Gentleman, maketh oath and saith, that he is acquainted
with the manner and character of the respective handswriting of Augustus
Julien Van Oost, of Gendbugge, near Ghent, in the kingdom of Belgium, and
Robert Novie, Esquire, of Ghent, aforesaid, the British Pro Consul for the
Two Flanders. And this deponent further saith, that he was personally
present and did see the said Augustus Julien Van Oost execute the Specifica-
tion hereunto annexed and marked A, and also the said Robert Novie sign his
name in the margin thereof, with the addition of "British p Consul for the
2 Flanders," which Specification bears date the 4th of April now last past.
Whereby it is stated that the said Specification was acknowledged by the said

page_text: Augustus Julien Van Oost, before the said Robert Novie, at Ghent, aforesaid,
on the said 4th day of April, are of the proper handswriting of the said Augustus
Julien Van Oost and Robert Novie. And this deponent further saith, that the
said Robert Novic, at the time of setting and subscribing his name to the said
Specification in manner above stated, was the British Pro Consul for the Two
Flanders.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Philippus Augustus
D'Homlt, the Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above
written. And also the. Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
5 tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.