An Improved Medicinal Preparation for Sheep and other Animals.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 14th July, 1900-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1900
An Improved Medicinal Preparation for Sheep and other Animals.
We, ALEXANDER ALLISON, and JAMES ALLISON, both of Wanganui, New
Zealand, Sheep Farmers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
DB follows.-
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It is well known to sheep farmers and others that ill conditioned and other
sheep are often benefited if put upon grass freshly grown after the bush which
originally existed has been burned
We have discovered that the wood ashes resulting from the burning of the
bush are, when eaten with the grass, one of the causes of the improvement in the
health of sheep suffering from internal parasites.
Our mvention consists of a preparation containing wood ashes and other
ingredients which act as a tonic and curative agent in killing internal para-
sites, or have properties which induce the animals to take the preparation
The preparation 18 made of the following ingredients;-wood ashes, salt,
sulphate of non, lime, sulphur, gentien, and ginger.
The ashes are taken in a crude state with the charcoal which may be left
after the burning of the wood. Fine salt is used and of the best quality The
lime must be slacked
All the ingredients must be quite dry, crushed to a fine powder and thoroughly
mixed together.
The preparation is placed in any suitable receptacle protected from the rain
but accessible to the animals
When made to be taken by horses the preparation may with advantage have
the proportion of wood ashes increased.
If the animals are suffering from scouring the proportion of charcoal should
be increased
If the animals are grazing upon land which is rich in any of the above men-
tioned ingredients, the proportion may be varied as required, for example if
the land is rich in lime the proportion of lime may be reduced; or if the bush
has been burned at some distant time but the ashes are not exhausted, the pro-
portion of ashes in the preparation may be reduced
Dated this 3rd day of November 1899
An Improved Medicinal Preparation for Sheep and other Animals,
We, ALEXANDER ALLISON, and JAMES ALLISON, of Wanganui, New Zealand,
Settlers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
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The ashes are taken in a crude state with the charcoal which may be left
after the burning of the wood. Fine salt is used and of the best quality The
Jime must be slaked.
All the ingredients must be quite dry, crushed to a fine powder and thoroughly
mixed together
The preparation is placed in any suitable receptacle protected from the rain
but accessible to the animals.
To induce animals to take the preparation, molasses or other palatable ingre-
dient may be mixed with the powder
When made to be taken by horses the preparation may with advantage have
the proportion of wood ashes inoreased.
If the animals are suffering from scouring the proportion of charcoal should
be increased.
If the animals are grazing upon land which is rich in any of the above men-
tioned ingredients, the proportions may be varied as required; for example, it
the land is rich in lime the proportion of lime may be reduced, or if the bush
has been burned at some distant time but the ashes are not exhausted, the pro-
portion of ashes in the preparation may be reduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim 18:--
1 A preparation for sheep and other animals consisting of wood ashes, salt,
sulphate of iron, slacked lime, sulphur, gentian, and ginger, dried, reduced to
a fine powder and mixed together in the proportions heieinbefore specified.
2. In a preparation for sheep and other animals, wood ashes reduced to a fine
powder
3 A preparation for sheep and other animals consisting of wood ashes, salt,
sulphate of iron, slaked lime, sulphur, gentian, and ginger, dried, reduced to
a fine powder and mixed together, and a palatable ingredient such as molasses,
substantially as set forth.
Daleu LISB 14th day of July 100D.
HASELTINE LAKE & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, WC, Agents for the Applicants.