The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

TO FARMERS AND COW% EEPEER.

GENTLEMEN.—I invite you to peruse the
report of the discussion, on Cattle Condiment a•
the meeting of the Boyd l Agricultural Society 01
England, held in !Irmo er square /00111 P h. having that
the facts theri broirglit t. light by gentlemen of repute
ii•m and po,itron AB farmers, and entir,ly noon IP Cted
widy me or my works, will convinee yoa that the value
I attach to nir discovery is by no means ecaggerated.
The diacussion, to which I now invite your attention.
was origina•ed by Mr. BgALE BROWNE, a gt ntlerner
well-known among you for his devotion to agricultural
nrogre,a, and who had been accidentdly induce I to try
my Condiment, some of the ingredients of which he
had used for previous years. Having from domes ir
i.fllct on to give up farming for a time, he sold r,ff th.
bulk of his flock of sheep, rttaining only& few favourite,.
During his absence these animals got reduced to • very
low ebb—indeed, half-a-dozen of them died, some were
IT. ken mouthed, and acme bet their teeth. Though in
a fine piece of clover, they were a mere bag of bower,
and oileake and corn had no good effect on them.
tried my Condiment. as he tells you. and the result
was that in three or four weeks he hardly 'knew th.-fil
again. After one hundred weight of Crmdiment, said
Mr. Browne, they went to grass, did remarkably well.
and the Condiment seemed to have entirely renovated
the whole constitnti n of the animals.

Mr. HINNY COTTON, who also took part in this die
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mission, illustrated the value of my Condiment to
homes, dogs, cows, and pigs. His mare bad been quite
set op by it, and restor.d to hunting condition. For
his dog, he found nothing better after a day's work in
the stubble or turnips. With his cows it improved the
flesh and the milk and, with his pigs, ho found s
marked improvement in those that were treated with it
over those not this, I. d.

Major MUNN'S testimony is even more decisive. His
lambs, on hid farm in the Isle of nappy, were terribly
afflicted with thread-like worms in the air vessels.
Their recovery was despaired of. His bailiff unposed
trying my Condiment. The Major, in despair, con-
tented, and now bears hit testimony to the results. In
his bail Ere own words, 'be saved the whole flock."
This wan in 1859. Again in October, 1860, he had 118
lambs thrown ou hit hands by the incoming tenant of
his farm, and not worth, in their then condition, more
than from six to ten shillings a-head. He tried my
Condiment again, and the result was, that he lost only
fire of the 118, and lie sold the remainder for from
forty-five to forty-six shillings a-head. He tells us that
he was eqnally bucce.sful with his horses, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the recovery
of his sheep and lambs was due to the use of the Condi-
ment.

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I may be permitted to add, that after this discnarion,
the Major tried the effect of the condiment on an
Alderney cow, under very special circeroi.tance. 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
Titbit of bet tterper week on the usual d ietof grams, in an gold,
cud turnips. On the 7th of April the condunent was com-
menced, and the firat week gave an increase of six re.
of butter; the second gave an increase of rather more
than a pound of butter; and the third week 9ilbs of
butter. Such facts speak for themselves, and used no
explanation.
'the MAJOR'S Vstimony is equally decisive 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 reekless imitations
of the Condiment foisted on the former by the retail
dealers and hawkers, and with the failures and
often terrible effects of which my invention is
neceasarily saddled. Until the legislature provides
a cheap and speedy method by which fraudulent imita-
tions and equally fraudulent dealers in shams can
-ce prosecuted and prevented from imposing on the
public, T feel I have no remedy but in making it up in
four-ounce packets, in blue paper with buff tables, and
my eignature et.gmved thereon, at one penny each; or
448 packets, in an iron-bound ease, carriage paid ta any
railer.y station in the United Kingdom on receipt of
Post-office Order for 345. I feel the difficulty of ensur-
ing its entity 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
thee evil results. I have DO quarrel with other makers
of Onneliment. I only complain of three who foist on
you an impure and often destructive composition as Iry
Condiment, and nececrarily affect XT reputation by it.
deleterious reaults, at the same time that they reduce
sly profits by the sale of TERM ilnpatittlee.
. . . .

You will 'not,ce that in the disor usdon the practical
value of my Condiment as a restorer of animals out of
condition, and as a fattening food. is mainly proved. I
have, however, good reason to recommend 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 fanners of the present day, when
the system of forcing nature, especially in the ease of
grasses and green mops, by the uncut 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 again invite your careful
perusal of the discussion, and have to request all those
who may be tempted to make a to favour me with
the results, be they good or bad, t their earliest oonve-
nienoe.

I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPFI THORLEY.
Spice Mills and Office—Thornhill Bridge,
Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London.