The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
Duping Farmers.

l. D. 1SfTy relates IN the P1dcClcd
arTner two amusing stories which
low how easely progressive, I'M
4 ad farmers are defrauded. He says:
II heard an amusing story showing
9w easy farmer can part with hard
.rnefi dollars, not long ago. 1t was
Id me by a perfectly reliable vete-
( harlan. He has been curing hogs of
fS)g cholera and getting big pay for it.
or example he told me privately (but
not tell me not to mention it, that
ich q man got the cholera in his herd
Id sent for him in great haste. He
4e:,t and took in the situation. There
ere perhaps so hogs and ten or more
Elk. He told the man ne thought he
iUld save about all that were then
Eli. and if he succeeded he should want
i. The farmer was only too glad to
he hlm go ahead and try. Now what
you suppose he did? Took the well
les out at once to another field away
ON the sick ones and where the hogs
I'd not been before. Then he got them
into a corner and examined them.
acre were many lice on them and he
rayed them thoroughly with a simple
luton that would kill these lice, and
left the strictest orders that this
raging should be repeated two or
rec times and thoroughly done, and
en- his $25 was earned. The disease
as checked. OF course he did not
plain to the owner what he was
ling. Doubtless the farmer would
I'VE lost faith in him if he had. The
mple truth wouldn't have been big
lough Men love to be humbugged.
ow every man who reads and is
ssted knows first that in case of
Ielera the we'll hogs must be taken
om the sick ones and put in new clean
larters. 1t won't answer 10 take the
tx ones out and away. Next, at least
n years ago, l think, heard DR..
etlnea-s, of Ohio, say that the germs
cholera often found entrance to the
stem, through the abrasions made by
e, or from putting rings in their
sses or in any other way. Possibly
se have more to do with it, but prob
3ly not Our doctor simply destroyed
2 lice so the abraSionS might heal
Id the hogs not be likely to get the
rms into their systems. knowledge
power, and it was money to the
,ctor. Which is better, friends, to pay
year for some good farm paper,
nj learn all that is known, or pay
me one a large price, 70 help them
L rich for some little matter that we
ouid have helped you TO for nothing? !
Now / am telling you about doctors |
must give one more. 1t is a good /
ie. know the man well, and he is |
.r-fectly reliable; but, of course, /
mt give his name, as his victims |
.gnt get hold of 1t. The horses in a /
rain place were many of them all |
e. They were not doing well; hair !
'6ked rough, and still they didn't /
EN- to have any disease. The doctor /
as puzzled for some time. At last he
tppeI1ed to find out that they did not
:lieve in sailing horses. 1t was a
rfsunOp custom not to. Then the
ysteTy was solved. But, of course,
i. did not tell them the truth, and to
} home and give them salt regularly
I'D they would be all right. That
5uldn't have gone down. So he quietly
sed UP a. pound or two of salt in a
lckage and colored it with red clay
Id told a man Just how to feed it
lily, and how much TO horse. Soon
fe horse was better, and the doctors
me rose, and he often took in SO 10
day for his medicine, and hundreds
dollars in the aggregate. Actually
le man offered him 5000 for the recipe
r this condition powderi" Perhaps
me of our readers helped this doctor
get rich, but thousands of them.
'operiy TO keep them healthy. This
,ctor friend has box in one end Of
fslanger with salt always in it.
e use a lump of rock salt. The horses
X a little, perhaps, several times a
" They should have ii always be-
re them Although small matter,
Us q large matter in helping to keep
& horse in perfect condition. ,