IMPROVED ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS FOR FEEDING CATTLE AND OTHER LIVE STOCK
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS FOR FEEDING CATTLE AND OTHER
LIVE STOCK." -A communication from abroad by the Firm of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th December 1875.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVED ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS FOR FEEDING
CATTLE AND OTHER LIVE STOCK," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved alimentary preparations for feeding
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and other animals, whether omnivorous or
herbivorous.

page_text: The 1st product is composed of meal or bran obtained by grinding
the maize cob or spike for use as fodder, either alone or mixed with
other nutrative substances.
The 2nd product consists of the grains of maize ground up together
with the cob or spike, that is to say, the whole ear is crushed or ground
up together. In this manner a coarser or finer meal is obtained,
suitable for feeding cattle or other animals.
The meal may be used either alone or mixed with other alimentary
substances, such as for example, oats, barley, bran, meal, crushed maize
cobs, sea salt, maize, flour, carobs, and acorns.
The proportions of the ingredients vary according to the kind of
animal and the purpose for which they are used. For example, the
following preparation has been found to give good results for draught
horses :-
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th May 1876.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, Her special license that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alexander Melville Clark, 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 "IMPROVED ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS
FOR FEEDING CATTLE AND OTHER LIVE STOCK," a communication to me from
abroad by the Firm of G. Barthe and Company, of Paris, France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Melville Olark, 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 Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters

page_text: alone or mixed with other alimentary substances, as and for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.