AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Cameron Morrison, of 8, Acacia Place,
Saint John's Wood, in the County, of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER
CATTLE."
Sealed the 8th February 1856, and dated the 11th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Cameron
Morrison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 11th August 1855.
:
I, ALEXANDER CAMBRON MORRISON, of 3, Acacia Place, St. John's Wood, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER
CATTLE" to be as follows: —
This Invention relates to certain improvements upon a former Invention,
secured by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, No. 230, to George William
Henri, of Fishergate, in the city of York, on the 30 January 1855, intituled
"A new compound or meal mixture for feeding cattle." The improved com-
pound or mixture, which forms the subject of this present Invention, consists
in compounding into a mixture the following ingredients, vegetable matters,
or substances, in the manner herein-after stated, so as to adapt such mixture
to horses of different constitutions, and for other reasons, hereafter explained,

page_text: and not provided for in the said former Invention, of the 30 January 1855;
that is to say, by adopting certain variations in the relative proportions of
such of the ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances composing the mixture,
according to the former Invention, as I find necessary for the purposes of this
present Invention, and mixing therewith certain other ingredients, matters, or
substances, I am enabled to impart to the said mixture certain properties which
do not exist in the said former Invention, and which I have found very im-
portant adjuncts to the mixture, particularly when intended for horses in low
or weakly condition.
In order to ascertain the nature of this Invention more fully, I proceed to
enumerate the several ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances which I
employ in and for the manufacture of an improved compound or mixture
according to this present Invention; that is to say, in addition to kidney beans,
barley, oats, rice, linseed, liquorice, nitre, carraway, peruvian bark, galingal,
gentian, sulphur, salt, and resin, ingredients used in and for the manufacture
of the compound or mixture, as set forth and described in the Specification of
the former Patent, No. 230, I employ the following ingredients, vegetable
matters, or substances, and compound them with the before-mentioned ingre-
dients into a mixture, namely, peas, cream of tartar, carbonate of soda,
chloride of soda, grains of paradise, ginger root, iceland moss, arrowroot,
aniseed, cardamums, turmeric, cascarilla bark, columbo root, canella, canella
alba, guiaiacum.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Cameron Morrison in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
CAMERON MORRISON, of 3, Acacia Place, Saint John's Wood, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Cameron Morrison, Her special licence that I, the said
Alexander Cameron Morrison, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Alexander Cameron Morrison, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: 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 "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR
FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Alexander Cameron Morrison, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Cameron Morrison, 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 relates to certain improvements upon a former Invention,
secured by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, No. 230, to George William
Henri, of Fishergate, in the city of York, on the Thirtieth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, intituled "A new compound or meal
mixture for feeding cattle." The improved compound or mixture, which forms.
the subject of this' present Invention, consists in compounding into a mixture
the following ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances in the manner
herein-after stated, so as to adapt such said mixture to horses of different con-
stitutions, and for other reasons, hereafter explained, and not provided for in
the said former Invention, of the Thirtieth January, One thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-five; that is to say, by adopting certain variations in the relative
proportions of such of the ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances
composing the mixture, made according to the said former Invention, as I find
necessary for the purposes of this present Invention, and mixing therewith
certain other ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances, I am enabled to
impart to the said mixture certain properties which do not exist in the mixture
made according to the said former Invention, and which I have since found
to be very important adjuncts to the mixture, particularly when intended for
horses in low or weakly condition.
In order to ascertain the nature of this Invention more fully, 1 proceed.to
enumerate the several ingredients, vegetable matters, or substances which I
employ in and for the manufacture of an improved compound or mixture
according to this present Invention; that is to say, in addition to kidney
beans, barley, oats, rice, linseed, liquorice, nitre, carraway, peruvian bark,

page_text: very useful in counteracting the acidity produced by large quantities of green
and undigested food in the stomach. To these I add of
Liquorice root, about
Carraway seed
Grains of paradise,,
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The above ingredients are employed for their carminative properties, useful
in dispelling flatulency, and for gently stimulating the stomach and digestive
organs to healthy action. To these I add, of iceland moss about 10 parts,
or 1 per cent., as containing nutritious and demulcent properties. In cases
where it may be necessary or desirable to diminish the quantity of, farinaceous
substances above mentioned, I substitute in lieu thereof, of arrowroot about
100 parts; and in diminishing the quantity of carminatives above mentioned, I
substitute of anniseed about 10 parts, and of cardamums about 7 parts. I also
employ of turmeric about 7 parts, for coloring the mixture and preserving the
several ingredients. And in some instances I add to the several ingredients
cascarilla bark, columbo root, canella, canella alba, and guaiacum.. The above
ingredients should be perfectly dry before mixing them together. The grain
being placed.in.any. convenient receptacle for that purpose, I prefer employing
coke fires for drying the grain, as being well calculated to evaporate the
moisture from the meal, thereby enabling it to be packed tightly without
heating. When the grain is thoroughly dried, it is sifted in an ordinary sieve
to separate dust and other extraneous matters or substances therefrom. The
other ingredients are then added thereto, and the whole thoroughly mixed and
incorporated together in a vessel convenient for the purpose. The above
mixture is then left in a heap for about 48 hours to ensure the absorption
of the "tonics," "antacids," and "carminatives" by the meal, which 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 to vary the proportions of the ingredients composing the mixture, for
although the mixture above described would answer well for a horse in good
working condition, for a horse in low condition I have found it necessary to
vary the mixture, by adding thereto about 20 per cent. of the tonic, carminative,
and nutritious ingredients above mentioned; and for a horse of weakly con-
stitution 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 "An
Improved Compound or Mixture for Feeding Horses and other Cattle," and

page_text: set forth the essential properties or elements which the ingredients, matters, or
substances employed should possess for the production of the said compound
or mixture, I desire it to be distinctly understood, that although the ingredients
and proportions above mentioned are the best I am acquainted with for the
manufacture of a compound or meal-mixture suitable for feeding horses and
other cattle, other similar substances containing similar properties may be
employed with equal effect; I hereby declare that I claim as my Invention,
the manufacture of a compound or meal mixture for feeding cattle from ingre-
dients possessing the properties, and compounded in the manner and for the
purposes, above mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Cameron Morrison, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
year of
ALEXANDER CAMERON MORRISON. (L.B.)
Witness,
ALEX PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.