The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-24 00:00:00

TO FARMERS AND COWKKETEB.S.

GENTLEMEN,—I invite you to peruse the
report of the discussion, on Cattle Condiment at
the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Satiety of
England, held in Hanover.square.zooms, believing that
the facts then bronglit to light by gentlemen of reprint.
lion and position as farmers, and entirely unconnected
with me or my works, will couvince yoq that the value
I attach to my discovery is by no means eraggerated.
The discussion, to which I now invite your attention,
was originated by Mr. BEAL! BROWNI, • gentlemen
wellknown among you for his devotion to agricultural
progress, and who had been socidentally induced to try
soy Condiment, some of the ingredients of which he
had used for previous years. Having from domestic
affliction to give up farming for a time, he sold off the
bulk of his dock of sheep, retaining only a few favourites.
During his absence these animals got reduced to a very
low ebb—indeed, halfa..cloren of them died, soros were
broken mouthed, and some lost their teeth. Though in
• fine piece of clover, they were a mere bag of bones,
and oilcake and acorn had no good effect on them. He
tried my Condiment, as he tells you. and the result
was that in three or four weeks he hardly knew them
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win. After one hundred weight of Condiment, said
Mr. Browne, they went to grass, did remarkably well,
and the Condiment seemed to have entirely renovated
the whole oonstitution of the animals.

Mr. HINET COTTON, who also took part in this dis-
cussion, illustrated the value of my Condiment to
horses, dogs, cows, and pigs. His mare had been quite
set up by it, and restored to hunting condition. For
his dog, he found nothing better after a day's work in
the stubble or turnips. With his oows it improved the
flesh and the milk; and, with his pigs, he found a
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 nappy, were terribly
afflicted with thread-like worms in the air vessels.
Their recovery was despaired of. His bailiff proposed
trying my Condiment. The Major, in despair, con-
sented, and now bears his testimony to the results. In
his bailiff'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-head. 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
be was equally suocereful with his hones, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the recovery
of his sheep and lambs was due to the nos of the Condi-
ment.
I may be permitted to add, that after this discussion,
the Majer tried the effect of the Condiment on au
Alderney cow, under very special circumstances. Her
third calf was calved on the 23rd of February, and
weaned on the 2nd of March, and from then to the 7tb
of April she continued to give cream enough to make
Tilbe. of butter per weeir on theasnal diet of gram, mangoid,
and turnips. On the 7th of April the Condiment win com-
menced, and the first week gave an increase of six os.
of butter; the second gave an increase of rather more
than a pound of better; and the third week 9ilbs of
butter. Such facts speak for themselves, and need no
explanation.
The MAJOR'S testimony is equally decisive as to the
elect of the Condiment on horses and dogs. He is Moo
very plain 'poke° on a point on whioh it is difficult for
me to speak with any patience—the reclaim 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 necessarily
saddled. Until the legislature provides a cheap and
speedy method by which fraudulent imitations and
equally fraudulent dealers in shams can be 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 lables, and my signature engrav, d
thereon at one penny each ; or 448 packets, in an iron-
bound ruse, carriage paid to any railway stations in
the United Kingdom on receipt of Post-office Order for
345. I feel the difficulty of ensuring its purity in other
ways; and whilst I sineerely regret the numerous
&motions practised on you under cover of 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 mr Condiment and
necessarily affect WY reputation by its deleterious result
at the same time that they reduce 67 profits by the
sale of THIIR impoirtme.
You will notice that in the discussion the pnctio
value of my Cordiment es a restorer of animals out 01
condition, and as • fatening food, is mainly proved. 1
have, however, good reason to recommend it to you as a
preventive of infection and an antidote to anomie—
kespiag the stomach and digestive organs in a
natural healthy toile and thus fortifying she animal
against the insidious inroads of disease. From
this quality it is especially valuable to stook
farmers of the present day, when the system
of forcing nature, worldly in the ease of grasses
and green crops, by the use of chemical masiere.,
Ins tended to increase the quantity of food at the cost of
its qu ility, and to render it not only fa leas nutritive,
but in many cases deleterious to the animal.
With these few remarks, I again invite your careful
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