Mr. J. B. Lawes, of Rothamstead, than whom there is no more accurate experimenter in agricultural practice, states that he made many careful trials with Thorley's food, and that he never found it to exercise the slightest influence upon the nutrition of the animals fed upon it. In his report upon this subject, Mr. Lawes, after describing the experiments which he made, sums up as follows:-- There is nothing therefore in the above results to recommend the use of Thorley's condiment with inferior fattening food, to those who feed pigs for profit. In fact, the following balance-sheet of the experiment shows that, in fattening for twelve weeks, there was a balance of £1 10s. 11d. in favor of the lot fed without Thorley's food, notwithstanding that one of the pigs in that lot did badly throughout the experiment, as above stated. LOT 1.--WITH BARLEY-MEAL AND BRAN. £ s. d. 4 pigs bought in at 41s. 6d. each 8 6 0 1,860-3/4 lbs. barley, at 37s. 6d. per quarter of 416 lbs., including grinding 8 7 8-3/4 1,024-3/4 lbs. bran at 5s. 6d. per cwt. 2 10 3-3/4 ------------ 19 4 0-1/2 88 stone 5 lbs. of pork sold at 4s. 4d. per stone, sinking the offal 19 4 0-1/2 LOT 2.--WITH BARLEY-MEAL, BRAN, AND THORLEY'S FOOD. £ s. d. 4 pigs bought in at 41s. 6d. each 8 6 0 1,862-3/4 lbs. barley, at 37s. 6d. per quarter of 416 lbs., including grinding 8 7 10-1/4 1,020-3/4 lbs. bran at 5s. 6d. per cwt. 2 10 1-1/2 105 lbs. Thorley's food at 40s. per cwt. 1 17 6 ------------ 21 1 5-3/4 90 stone 1 lb. pork sold at 4s. 4d. per stone, sinking the offal 19 10 6-1/2 ------------ 1 10 11-1/4 The results of these experiments with pigs, in which Thorley's condiment was used with inferior fattening food, may be summed up as follows:-- 1. The addition of Thorley's condimental food increased the amount of food consumed by a given weight of animal within a given time. 2. When Thorley's condiment was given it required more food to produce a given amount of increase in live-weight. 3. In fattening for twelve weeks there was a difference of £1 10s. 11d. on the lot of 4 pigs in favor of barley-meal and bran alone, over barley-meal, bran, and Thorley's food in addition.