The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

REGISTERED FOR TRA2IVILIBSION ABROAD.

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER. l2, 1865.

TO FARMERS AND COWIC.F.EPERS.
GENTLEMEN,—I invite you to peruse the
report of the discuision, on Cattle Condiment at
the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England, held in Hanover square rooms, believing that
the facts then broright to light by gentlemen of repute.
lion and poeition as farmers, and entirely unconnected
with Me or my works, will convince yoa that the value
I attach to my discovery is by no means exaggerated.
The discussion, to which I DOW invite your attention,
was originated by Mr. BEALE BROWNE, • gentlemen
welbknown among you for his devotion to agricultural
progrees, and who had been accidentally induced to try
my Condiment, some of the isgrsdiests of which he
had need for previous yearr. Having from domestic ,
affliction to give up forming for a time, he still off the ,
bulk of his flock of cheep, retainini, ea few favourites.
During his absence these en male got rednoed to a very !
low ebb—indeed, ha ba.dozen of their died, some were
broken mouthed, arid. stme lost their teeth. Though in
• 4•.' VrOv, r, t'rey WOT a a mere bag of bones,
and oiloace bon, bedod Aro on them. He
tried my
, Condiment, as he tone you. and the result,
"r". tnab. to three or four 41100144 be hardly knew *ow
l ,fra (pin

huiZOtileNgs. trove, and pip His 1134;.0 h.dbáqvlt.
set lip by said restorea to hunting oonditteem Flit
his dog, he found nothing hatter after day'rworkin
the stubble or turnips. With his cows it improved the
fleali end the milk; and, with his pigs, he found
marked Improvement in those that were treated with it
over those not thus fed.

Major MUNN'S testimony is even more decisive. His
lambs, on his farm in the Isle of Bheppy, were terribly
afflicted with thread-like worms in the air veasels.
Their recovery was despaired of. His bailiff pre posed
trying my Cond.ment. The Major, in despair, OM-
sented, and now bears his testimony to the results. In
his basalt's own words, 'be saved the whole flock."
This was in 1859. Again in October, 1860, he had 118
lambs thrown on his bands by the incoming tenant of
his farm, and not worth, in their then condition, more
than from six to ten shillings a-bead. He tried my
Condiment again, and the result was, that he lost only
five of the 118, and he sold the remainder for from
forty-five to forty-six shillings a-head. He tells us that
he was equally suocegsfal with his horses, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the recovery
of his aheep and lambs was due to the use of the Condi-
ment.

I may be permitted to add, that after this discussion,
the Major tried the effect of the condiment on an
Alderney cow, under very special circumstance. Her
third calf was calved on the 23rd of February, and
weaned on the 2nd of March, and from then to the 7th
of April she continued to give cream enough to make
7 Phi. of butter per week on the usual d iet of grass, mangold,
and turnips. On the 7th of April the condiment was corn-
menced, and the first week gave an increase of six oz.
of butter; the second gave an increase of rather more
than a pound of butter; and the third week Nibs of
butter. Such facts speak for themselves, and need no
explanation.
. . . . . .

he klevoe's testimony is equally deoisive as to the
effect of the Condiment on horses and dogs. He is also
very plain spoken on a point on which it is difficult for
me to speak with any patience—the reckless imitations
of the Condiment foisted on the former by the retell
dealers and hawkers, and Ivith the failure's and
often terrible effects of w:sieh my invention is
necessarily saddled. Until the legislature provides
a cheap and speedy method by which fraudulent imita-
tions and equally fraudulent dealers in shams can
lie prosecuted and prevented from imposing on the
public, I feel I have no remedy but In making it up in
four-ounce packets, in blue paper with buff tables, end
my signature engraved thereon, at one penny each; or
448 packets, in an iron-bound eau, carriage paid to any
railway station in the United Kingdom, on receipt of
Post-offioe Order for 348. I feel the difficulty of ensur-
ing its polity in other ways ; and whilst I sincerely
regret the numerous deceptions practised on you under
cover ef my name, I must decline the responsibility of
their evil results. I have no quarrel with other makers
of Condiment. I only complain of those who foist on
you an impure and often destructive composition as MY
Condiment, and necessarily affect MY reputation by its
deleterious results, at the same time that they reduce
MY profits by the sale of THEIR imposture.
You will notes that in the discussion the practical
value of my Condiment sea restorer of animals out of
condition, and as a fattening food, is mainly proved. I
have, however, good reason to reoommesd it to you as •
preventive of infection and an antidote to disease—
keeping the stomach and digestive organs in a natural
healthy tone, and thus fortifying the animal against the
insidious inroads of disease. From this quality it is espe-
cially valuable to stock farmers of the present day, when
the system of forcing nature, especially in the case of
graues and green clops, by the use of chemical manures,
has tended to increase the quantity of food at the cost
of its quality, and to'render it not only far less nutritive,
but in many cases deleterious to the animal.
With these few remarks, I *gain invite your careful
perusal of the discussion, and have to request all those
who may be tempted to make a trial to favour me with
the results, be they good or bar], at their earliest conve-
nience. _ _ _

I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH THORLEY.

Spice Mills and Office—Thornhill Bridge,
Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London.