The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

TO FARMERS AND COWKEEYEES.

GENTLEMEN,—I invite yon to peruse the
report of the discussion, on Ciittle Condiment at
the meeting of the Royel Agricultural Society of
England, held in Hanover square rooms, believing that
the facts then brought to light by gentlemen of reputes
thin and position as farmers, and entirely unconnected
wish me or my works, will convince you that the value
I attach to my discovery is by no means exaggerated.

The discussion, to which I now invite your attention,
wes OrtgihEtrtdi by Mr:, Hiatt BnoWNE, a gentlemen
well-known among you for hid defotlou to agricultural
progress, and who had been accidentally induce/ to try
my Condiment, some of the ingredients of which he
had u.e.l for previous years. Having from domestic
affliction to give up farming for a time, he sold off the
bulk of his flock of sheep, retaining only • few favourites.
During his absence these annuals got reduced to • very
low ebb—indeed, half-a-dozen of them died, some were
broken mouthed, and some lost their teeth. Though in
a fine piece of clover, they were a mere bag of bones,
and oilcake and corn 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
again. After one hundred weight of Onndiment, said
Mr. Browne, they went to grass, did remarkably well.
and the Condiment seemed to have entirely renovated
the whole donatitution of the animals.
Mr. HENRY Cotfiott, iihd alto todlc purt in this die.
mission, illustrated the value of diy Condiftlent 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 cows it improved the
flesh and the milk • and, with his pigs, he found a
marked imprBvemeht i,n thode that were treated with it
beer these lint thisfed:
Major filtlelAs testimony it eilin theirs decisive. Hit
lambs on his farm in the Isle of Stumpy, *ere fierriblif
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, "he saved the whole flock."
This was in 1859. Again in October, 1860, he had 118
lambs thrown on his hands by the incoming tenant of
his farm, and not worth, in their then condition, more
than from Biz to ten shillings a-hend. He tried my
Condiment again, and the result was, that be last 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 succe.eful with his horses, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other otiose, the recovery
of his sheep and lambs was due to the use of the Condi-
ment.

I may be permitted to add, that after this alisensfion,
the Major tried the effect of the condiment on en
Alderney cow, under very special oirimiiistance. Pier
third calf was salved on the 23rd of February, end
weaned on the 2nd of March, and from then to the 7th
of April Abe °Optioned to, give cream enough to make
7 Pict. of butter per week on the motel diet of grass, man g old,
and turnips. On the 7th of April the etifidiment was cam-
inenced, and the first week gave an increase of six on.
of butter; the second gave an increase of rather more
than a pound of butter; and the third week 9ilba of
butter. Such facts speak for themselves, and need no
explanation.
The his.loa's testimony is equally decisive as to the
effect of the Condiment on horses and dogs. He M also
very plain spoken on • poivt on which it is difficult for
me to speak with any patience—the reckless imitations
of the Cdndimint foisted qn the former by the retail
dealers and hawkert, and iflth the failtires and
often terrible effects of which my ihiantlon is
necessarily saddled. Until the legislature provides
i a cheap and speedy method by which fraudulent imita-
tions and equally fraudulent dealers in shams can
os prosecuted and prevented from imposing on the
public, I feel I have ne remedy but in making it up in
four-ounce packets, in blue paper with buff bibles, and
my signature engraved thereon, at one penny each; or
448 packets, in an iron-bound 01,819, carriage paid to any
railway station in the United Kingdom, en receipt of
Post-tiffilbe Cirder for 45. I feed the difficulty of ensur-
ing its puiitY in other weys arid whilst I sincerely
regret the numerous deceptions praotieed oil yeti Mader
cover of my name, I must decline the responsibility of
their evil results. I have no quarrel with other makers
of Condiment. I only eomplain of those who foist on
rill an impure and often destrnotive composition as ite
Ciindiment, and necessarily affect MT repetation by ite
deleterious results, at the same time that they reduce
MY profits by the sale of THEIR iinpostuee.
You will notice that in the discumion 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 •
preventite of infliction 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 cane of
grasses and green mope, by the use of chemical manures,
his ended to increase the quantity of food at the cost
of its quality ; and to rendir it not only far less nutritive,
but in many cages deletenowl to the animal.
With these few remarks, I again iniitB 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 bad, at their earliest conve-
nience.