424 Abstract Repoi't of Agricultural Discussions. 
Lord Camoys, usecl condiment for liis horses and cattle, and found 
it so beneficial that he had continued to use it, without, he believed, 
inquiring whether or not he could obtain a similar article at a 
lower price. No one of his acquaintance kept his accounts more 
regidarly, or took greater care not to incur an outlay for Avhich he 
was not likely to obtain an adequate return, than Lord Camcys. 
Major MuxN (Kent) stated, that two years ago some of his lambs 
were very ill with a consimiptive cough, and had a peculiar kind 
of worm in the throat or the air-passages. His bailift" asked him if 
he should try Thorley's Food, and his reply was, " Try what you 
like, they must die." The food was given to a large number of 
them, and they recovered. It was afterwards tried on another 
batch which was in bad condition, and they also recovered. He 
did not watch those cases sufficiently to say that Thorley's Food 
had anything to do with the recovery of these animals. They were 
kept in the ordinary way. The lambs were first put out to grass 
on some salt marshes in the Isle of Sheppey ; they were afterwards 
put in folds on tho^mainland at Favei'sham, and then it was that 
they got that hacking cough, and became diseased. In the autumn 
of 1800, when one of his farms was let, the incoming tenant dis- 
appointed him by declining to take a large niimber of lambs which 
were called refuse or worthless. He was told that he would not 
get more than six, seven, or at the utmost ten shillings a piece for 
from one to two hundred of them. One hundred and eighteen of 
these refuse lambs were put into his paddock. His bailiff suggested 
the use of Thorley's Food. Ho picked out twenty-five of the worst 
to begin with. Five of these died within a fortnight, and three 
others were in such bad condition that they had to be killed. The 
remainder of them he carried through ; some were still at home, 
and some were sold about two months ago at 45s. to 46s. apiece. 
These animals wore all kept in the common waj', except that they 
had some bruised beans and peas for a time, and therefore the result 
might be attributed to Thorley's Food. 
He once so much improved a worn-out horse with this food, that 
he was lent to a butcher on the condition that he was well fed. The 
butcher was a bad horse-master, and the horse, a delicate feeder, 
got out of condition .again, but a cask of Thorley's Food again 
restored him to health. He only regarded condiments as restoratives 
or medicines ; whether or not they had any fattening properties as 
well, was a question into which he did not enter : all he knew was 
that it had restored these animals under j^cculiar circumstances, in 
successive years, and with the same general system of management 
that the sheep and horses would have been subjected to without 
this extra food. He might furthei' state that, when he had tried 
the condiment of another maker on a horse and on some sheep, it 
producedno effect, although Thorley's Food, subsequently purchased, 
restored these animals to health. They were all, no doubt, very 
much indebted to the agricultural chemists for the analyses which 
they had given, but these only went to show that there were no 
extraordinary fattening qualities in these condiments. 
