IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES AND CATTLE
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Long, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Corn
Merchant, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FOOD FOR HORSES AND CATTLE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Long at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th July 1881.
JOHN LONG, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Corn Merchant.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES AND CATTLE."
❝ IMPROVE-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in the manufacture of food for
horses and cattle, has for its object the production of a food which shall be more
palatable and nutritive to, and especially suitable for fattening the animals fed
therewith than horse and cattle foods as usually compounded are.
In carrying my Invention into effect I manufacture the improved food as a meal,
which I prepare from the hereinafter mentioned materials and in about the
proportions also mentioned.
To produce a quantity, say, of about 5 tons 4 cwts., of the improved food, I take
of bran about 2,688 lbs., of American maize about 2,400 lbs., of barley about
1,800 lbs., of lentils about 1,466 lbs., of wheat about 960 lbs., of beans about
640 lbs., of oats about 360 lbs., of white peas about 252 lbs., of linseed cake
about 504 lbs., of cotton cake about 446 lbs., of fenugreek about 84 lbs., and of
allspice and of carraways each about 56 lbs. I find the above proportions of great
advantage, but I do not confine myself thereto.
I reduce the above mentioned materials to a meal-like condition by any suitable
means, and I thoroughly blend or intermix the whole of the said materials together
by the use also of any suitable means. The resultant admixed meal is the improved
food and is ready for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Long in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd January
1882.
JOHN LONG, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Corn Merchant.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR HORSES AND CATTLE."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in the manufacture of food for
horses and cattle, has for its object the production of a food which shall be more
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page_text: palatable and nutritive to and especially suitable for fattening the animals fed
therewith than horse and cattle foods as usually compounded are.
In carrying my Invention into effect I manufacture the improved food as a meal,
which I prepare from the hereinafter mentioned materials or ingredients, and
preferably in about the proportions also mentioned.
To produce a quantity, say, of about 5 tons 4 cwts., of the improved food, I
take of bran about 2,688 lbs., of American maize about 2,400 lbs., of barley about
1,800 lbs., of lentils about 1,466 lbs., of wheat about 900 lbs., of beans about
640 lbs., of oats about 360 lbs., of white peas about 252 lbs., of linseed cake
about 504 lbs., of cotton cake about 446 lbs., of fenugreek about 84 lbs., and of
allspice and of carraways each about 56 lbs.
Or I combine the herein before mentioned ingredients in about the following
proportions; that is :-I take of pollard about 470 lbs., of maize about 616 lbs., of
barley about 294 lbs., of lentils about 239 lbs., of beans about 126 lbs., of wheat
about 155 lbs., of peas about 80 lbs., of oats about 77 lbs., of linseed cake about
80 lbs., of cotton cake about 72 lbs., of fenugreek seed about 13 lbs., and of
allspice and of carraways each about 9 lbs., this quantity making just about
1 ton.
I find the above proportions of great advantage, but I do not confine myself
thereto, as I attach more importance to the combination of the ingredients specified
than to any particular proportions thereof.
I reduce the above mentioned materials or ingredients to a meal-like condition
by any suitable means, and I thoroughly blend or intermix the whole of the said
materials together by the use also of any suitable means, these means forming no
part of my present Invention. The resultant admixed meal is the improved food
and is ready for use.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as the improvements
constituting the Invention secured to me by the herein before in part recited Letters
Patent,
The manufacture of a palatable, nutritive, and fattening food for horses and
cattle of or from the herein before mentioned ingredients when used in combination
and preferably in about the hereinbefore mentioned proportions.
-In-witness whereof, I, the-said- John Long, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
ARTHUR H. CANE,
Clerk to Mr. Henry Creed,
Solicitor,
18, The Forbury,
Reading,
JOHN LONG. (L.S.)
Berks.