A NEW COMPOUND OR MEAL MIXTURE FOR FEEDING CATTLE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George William Henri, of Fishergate, in the City of
York, for the Invention of "A NEW COMPOUND OR MEAL MIXTURE FOR
FEEDING CATTLE."
Sealed the 25th May 1855, and dated the 30th January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George William Henri
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th January 1855.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM HENRI, of Fishergate, in the City of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW COMPOUND OR MEAL
MIXTURE FOR FEEDING CATTLE," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed for the purpose of imparting to prepared food or
meal the bitter properties contained in young grass or "tares," and other unripe
corn or herbage, in the spring of the year, and which bitter property is found
to be as essential. to herbivorous animals as salt is to carnivorous animals, as it
operates as a stimulant. The new compound or meal which constitutes this
Invention consists in compounding together the following vegetable inatters
or substances;. namely, kidney beans without the husks, barley, oats, rice,
linseed, liquorice, nitre, carraway, Peruvian bark, galingal, gentian, sulphur,
salt, and rosin, the whole being dried in coke ovens, and afterwards made up
in packages.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George William Henri in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WILLIAM HENRI, of Fishergate, in the City of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George William Henry, Her special licence that I, the said George William
Henri, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George William Henri, 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 "A NEW
COMPOUND OR MEAL MIXTURE FOR FEEDING CATTLE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George William Henri, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should. particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
De 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 George William Henri, 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) :-
:-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of imparting to prepared food or
meal employed for feeding cattle the bitter properties contained in young grass
or tares, and other green herbage or unripe corn, at the spring time of the
year, such said bitter properties having been found as beneficial to herbivorous
animals as salt is to them in stimulating the stomach and digestive organs to
healthy action.
.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now pro-
ceed to describe and enumerate the several ingredients, vegetable matters, or
substances which I employ in and for the manufacture of the above mixture,
and to describe the method practised by me of treating such said ingredients pre-
paratory to mixing them together, as also the relative proportions thereof, and

page_text: being effected, the mixture may then be made up into convenient packages
ready for commercial purposes. I would here' remark, that under certain
circumstances I have found it desirable in practice to vary the proportions of
the ingredients composing the above mixture; I do not therefore limit or
confine myself to the precise proportions set forth, but vary them as found.
desirable, according to the constitution of the horse; for example, for a horse
in low condition, I prefer adding, to the above mixture about twenty per
cent. of the tonic carminative and nutritious ingredients; and for a horse of
weakly constitution, I use th part less of the tonic, diuretic, and antacid
ingredients, and increase the quantity of the carminative and nutritious
ingredients th.
Having now. described the nature and object of my said Invention of "A
New Compound or. Meal Mixture. for Feeding Cattle," and set forth the
essential properties or elements which the ingredients, matters, or substances
should possess for the production of the said compound or mixture, I would
remark, in conclusion, that I claim as my Invention the manufacture of a
compound or meal mixture for feeding cattle from ingredients possessing
the properties and compounded in the manner and. for the purposes above
mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said George William Henri, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
GEORGE WILLIAM HENRI. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD LIDDELL,
Manor House Street, Hull.".