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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
AUGUST KOY, OF PETERS, TEXAS.
METHOD OF PROTECTING VEGETABLE MATTER.No. 857,075.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed April 25, 1906. Serial No. 313,655.lo a whoJm i , m1biIa CObC(:it.'
Be it known that I, AUGUST KoY, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Peters, in
the county of Austin and State of Texas, have
invented a new and useful Method of Protect-
ing Vegetable Matter, of which the following
is a specification.
My present invention relates to the protec-
tion of stored vegetable matter, particularly
io corn, from the ravages of insects, especially
the weevil, and the object is to provide an ef-
fective method capable of being practiced
during the storing of the corn or other vege-
table matter, and serving to insure the coin-
15 plete protection thereof against the weevil or
other insects for an indefinite period.
As the result of a series of experiments, I
find that wood ashes and salt, when associated
with corn or other vegetable matter, will ren-
20 der the latter immune from the attack of in-
sects. I have therefore devised a novel
method whereby ashes and salt may be asso-
ciated with the corn or other vegetable mat-
ter as it is stored, in order to insure its subse-
25 quent protection.
In practicing the method, I cover the floor
upon which the corn or the like is to be stored
with a thin layer of wood ashes. A layer one-
sixteenth of an inch in depth is suflicient, and
3o by preference, the ashes used are those pro-
duced by the combustion of oak or other hard
wood. Upon this layer of ashes corn in the
husk-is piled to a depth of say one foot. Over
this layer of corn, wood ashes is sprinkled,
35 the quantity employed being approximately
one peck to each fifty square feet of floor sur-
face. Over this layer of ashes is sprinkled a
solution of salt produced by approximately
twenty pounds of common salt in approxi-Patented June 18, 1907.
lately 8 gallons of water. Other layers of to
corn similar to the one (described are then
piled on the first layer, and each layer is
strewn with ashes and sprinkled with the salt
solution or brine, as (lescribed. It should be
understood, however, that the proportions 45
stated are not invariable, and that while the
invention is directedd niore particularly to the
protection of stored corn from the ravages of
the weevil, the invention is thought to reside
broadly in the protection of stored vegetable 50
matter by the association therewith of wood
ashes and brine.
What I claim is:-
] . T.nhat method of protecting vegetable
Imatter which consists in storing the same 55
upon a layer of wood ashes and scattering
wood ashes over the vegetables so stored and.
in thereafter sprinkling the ash covered vege-
tables with a solution of salt.
2. That method of protecting corn from 6o
the ravages of the weevil which consists in
covering the floor of the crib with a layer of
wood ashes, next placing a layer of corn in
the husk upon the layer of wood ashes, next
scattering a quantity of wood ashes over the 65
layer of corn, next sprinkling the layer of corn
with a solution of salt. and thereafter adding
additional layers of corn, one at a time, and
appl0yin wood ashes and a solution of salt to
each layer in the manner stated. 70
In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as
gmy own, I have hereto affixed my signature
in the presence of two witnesses.
his
AUGUST x KOY
mark.
Witnesses:
A. S. HOLLEY,
C. E. IiILLBOLDT.
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Koy, August. Method of Protecting Vegetable Matter, patent, June 18, 1907; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509281/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.