AN IMPROVED FEED CAKE FOR CATTLE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hodge, 6, High Street, Hull, in the County of
York, Seed Crusher, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FEED CAKE FOR
CATTLE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by, the said Henry Hodge at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1878.
HENRY HODGE, 6, High Street, Hull, in the County of York, Seed Crusher.
"AN IMPROVED FEED CAKE FOR CATTLE."
The object of this Invention is the production of an improved feed cake for cattle,
by the combination in or about equal proportions of linseed and cotton seed after
the oil has been extracted.
Hitherto the cakes have been crushed separately, as puro linseed cakes, or as
cotton cakes, and both are largely used in feeding, linseed cake being most generally
given to beast and sheep partaking of dry food, and cotton cake to beast and sheep
eating green food, such as grass, bulbs, and similar substances. The reason of this.
is that the two kinds of cake are of quite an opposite nature and produce quite
opposite effects, linseed cake being purgative in its action and cotton cake binding.
The latter consequently requires great judgment in giving to stock, and in some
instances where the farmer through ignorance of the nature and action of cotton
cakes has given them too freely, or not taken into consideration the kind of staple
food the animals were partaking of, they have killed them, as has been proved by
examination after death. Many persons are consequently prejudiced against the
use of cotton cake, and some farmers will not use it at all.
It is however admitted by many practical feeders that linseed and cotton cakes
given in equal proportions is the best fattener extant, but under the present mode

page_text: of using them, which is to break the two kinds up in an ordinary farmer's mill, then
give to the stock in that form, it is impossible for all the beasts or stock to get an
equal proportion, as it always happens that some animal has a preference for either
the one or the other, and gets more than its share of cotton cake or linseed cake,
thereby doing itself an injury, or, to say the least, not doing itself the same amount
of good as though it were compelled to take the two in equal proportions.
The object of my Invention therefore is to combine the two (in or about equal
proportions) in the form of cake, thereby making an excellent feed which may be
given safely to any kind of stock, no matter what kind of other food they are
partaking of at the time.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Hodge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th June
1878.
HENRY HODGE, 6, High Street, Hull, in the County of York, Seed Crusher.
"AN IMPROVED FEED CAKE FOR CATTLE"
The object of this Invention is the production of an improved feed cake for cattle,
by the combination in or about equal proportions of linseed and cotton seed, after
the oil has been extracted.
Hitherto the cakes have been crushed separately, as pure linseed cakes, or as
cotton cakes, and both are largely used in feeding, linseed cake being most generally
given to beast and sheep partaking of dry food, and cotton cake to beast and sheep
eating green food, such as grass, bulbs, and similar substances. The reason of this
is that the two kinds of cake are of quite an opposite nature and produce quite
opposite effects, linseed cake being purgative in its action and cotton cake binding.
The latter consequently requires great judgment in giving to stock, and in some
instances where the farmer through ignorance of the nature and action of cotton
cakes has given them too freely, or not taken into consideration the kind of staple
food the animals were partaking of, they have killed them, as has been proyed by
examination after death. Many persons are consequently prejudiced against the
use of cotton cake, and some farmers will not use it at all.
It is however admitted by many practical feeders that linseed and cotton cake
given in equal proportions is the best fattener extant, but under the present mode
of using them, which is to break the two kinds up in an ordinary farmer's mill,
then give it to stock in that form, it is impossible for all the beast or stock to get
an equal proportion, as it always happens that some animal has a preference for
either the one or the other, and gets more than its share of cotton cake or linseed
cake, thereby doing itself an injury, or, to say the least, not doing itself the same
amount of good as though it were compelled to take the two in equal proportion.
The object of my Invention therefore, and that to which I lay claim is, combining
the two in or about equal proportions in the form of cake, as herein-before described,

page_text: theroby making an excellent feed which may be given safely to any kind of stock,
no matter what kind of other food they are partaking of at the time.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hodge, have hereunto set my band and
seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
HENRY HODGE. (LS.)