CATTLE CONDIMENTS. UNKNOWN

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVIII, Issue 1634, 16 October 1862, Page 3

CATTLE CONDIMENTS. UNKNOWN

Till" veteiinaiy profession must feel an mteiest in the ffioat agneultnril questions of tne il iv, .mil ts penally in all those that concern the management of stock We ilt\ote upw.mls of sixteen pages of tins uuinbii Co the upoitof i niceting of the Royal \«ii eultiuil St>e.et\, it which cattle < oiuhincnts wele vi iv full y discussed Wo have one gioit objection to the di-ii iismoii, .mil that, is, tint Mi Thoili^ Ins hid the bern ht of igt itis ad\ei tiscint n f , foi whuh he could wlllw 1 11 afFoul to pu scnei.il thou-md pounds out of the o\ti loidinu y juice he liulucos the Bntish fai liici to pay toi his medicine It is .i guut tiling foi .i specific m«>]ii»<"'i to g< t a All. 13«'<tle T»io\\ n, with t pile of lettcis, mil M.ijoi Munu with his conclude facts The«o <j,< ntleinen ha\e dom foi Ml. Thoile\ whit huiulicils ami thousands ha\e hitlieito done lit. foi i* them foi infallible pills and ointments whirl) " punty tin 1 tieo of life 1 ' The lecent meeting in Hanovei squat e .iftonls a stiikiug contiast to the uiulliguit ni.iunei in which such subjects .ne taken up on the continent Qutokeiv thete is not pel nutted to plundei on the people, and the f metes of its dupe 1 * ate not p.u.uhd foith The subjects ate tested by scientific commissions The Dinish Uoverunient, we bilie\e, win the lint to take up the subject of cUtle condiments in a syslemitic mannei. .\nd judiciously conducted e\pcuments led to conclusions sunil « to those .ilteadv pul)hshed l>y oui lllustiious cotmtivtnui John ILnnet Liwes How well Mi Thoiley Ins succeeded is pio\ed by the ni.innei in which ho has i.aised himself to the position of ,i ni.utyi in the ojes of Sit Beale Tltowne, and siinil.u judges of facts and ch.u.ictet. Tneie aie two wa>s to make mono} in Gie.it Buti.in out of medicine, .mil othei exti loidinaiy pte|i.ii.iti<ms The one is to gi\o an imaluable aiticle, which soon pioves an essonti il commodity, at a small pi ice The other is to select an aiticle winch will not nijuie adveilise it to .my extent, ,md chaigo the public for its extiaoidinai} faith m puffa. Many in this woild weie ncvei bom to think much foi theinsehes, and the advutisoi has le.nned that foi this class it is essential to asseit loudly enough in Older to make it believe anything and buy. It is a simple suiplus of i ish o\et In, inn Mi Thotle\ will continue to aiheitise, many will buy and extol his piepaii turns, but the enlightened and pio\ident faimei will think lnoio than twice befoio he pays for the pictty pictims at the i ulway stations, and for the nice ni.wmi in which, .is the advocates for the food it niecont meetimr^ud Afi Thoi ley's innouncemonts weie displ iyeil. It w tiuly aiiiniii; at tlie sulistincc and ui.ispiiiij the sh idow But we have anothei %iew to take of themxttei, and this not as the lesult of a piejudicc, but fiotn obseuatum We wetc once told that the coiidimont.il food was concenttated that was a \\ kiiii* statement, and we aie now isk(d to look upon it as Woicesteishite MIKC to th>' I'i'efstoik Olheis would look upon it m the li"hl of the pill which c\itain old Indus lecominend it dinnei Unit;, to ,iot as i tonic and pie\ent costiveness So fat as simple condiinentb .ue con ceined, in then (fleets on man, physicians aie -it one in ui«inij then vei^ spar.im employment They aie useless to tho^e who, lichijt hea!th>, aic aho moilerite in then tistt 1 * and aie neithei lntunpet ito feedeis not drinkers. When a man eats foi eating sake, he foices his digestive oi yfans into unnatutal wotk by cayenne and muataul, which lie cannot afteiwaids dispense with without suffiiin<r fiom d\spe()sia. Salt is the matiiiil most unneisnlly and necess.uily employed to rendei foods p lint ible .and to aid their nntiitions ptopeities But in excels salt is nt«o \ery injuiious , and Piofessoi iVndei son's lectmc, published in Febin.aiy, should not be liffhtly passed inn by the man of science and the mm ot piactico Pi ofos-sor Andersons statement, and it cent expei mients on pigs by Mr Lawes, will leceive th it eonfii ination ly aftci experience which will tend to keep the condiments in their uelit place, as good propci tv foi ad vet tiseis, though bad investments foi the stock owner To turn moie patttoulitly to the somewhit new view we take of this mattei, we mint mention that condiments, even in the simple form of common salt but especully in the aiomatio substances, may often kill The diseases of rattle in Gieit Biitain aie undergoing gi eat changes. Deaths fiom the lesults of plethoia aie now fm in excesss to deith fiom other causes Tt is not the pool condition hut the extiava gantly high condition, of our stock that we must collect Splenic ippoplexy, liver diseases, and other affections due to feeding and to food giown on nch soil under a f >rcecl sv'stem of cultivation, nee largely on the incieasp, ami if formeis think the medicine, which the Royal Agiicultuial i.Society has now helped to aiheitise, will have as good an effect in those cases as on Major Nnnn's six-shilling sheep, and his old hoise, they will be icpaid foi theit ciedulitv by a high moitahty Wo have fiequently heeu in a position to confiiin the ohsei valion made by the late Piofc-soi Deiafond, that condiment, though no moie than a sni'ill qu intity of common salt, is suHicient to tutu to death's side the hesitating balance between health .md disc ise to the plethotic animal The motto of the Enirhsh society is, Piactico with Science, and in nccoulaiice with that, lot us not have medicine vendon, whose nostrums wo wonderful in the my»tory which

veil* their nature and action, puffed to the detriment of ngrieultuie. No British farmer should pay for that which lie thoroughly understands the composition and pioperties of. Manures are being rigorously tested ; they are being w>l<i v ith analysis, and adulterations are being rendeied wore and moie difficult Any veterinary surgeon may, for a guinea fee, furnish Mr. Be»le Bio wne, or any advocate of condiments, with a prescription which will save him hundreds and even thousands which he might expend in advertised mateiials, if he wishes medicine to improve health (?) Let the drugs be bought in the cheapest market, with open eycß, and lrixud by the most cnieful of old women, and our extensive advertiseis must shut up shop. They aie fortunate, howevei, in having a cheap piess to adveitise them, and a ciedulous and wealthy public to lead. We wish them that shaie of the good things of thin life which they deseive; but we do protest, in the interest of the British fanner, and in defence of Uritiih common sense in the sight of the world, against the twaddle-talking in the Royal Agricultural Society's looms in Hanover-square.