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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Secret Formula Swindle. The farmer or stockman who buys the formula of a "magic cure from some stranger most likely will find his acquisition a "gold brick." A gyp horse dealer sold a "sure cure" heave receipt to an Indiana farmer for $25. It proved to be made of crude gypsum ("land plaster") flavored with a little capsicum and ground ginger root. The horse was to receive a tablespoonful night and morning for two or three weeks. Such a concoction might possibly relieve some of the severest symptoms of heaves, which is an incurable disease, but was of course not worth a fraction of the price charged. It is astonishing what cheap ingredients find their way into condition powders, worm powders and stock foods. We knew of a quack who combined fine sifted sand from the shore of Lake Michigan with the wood ashes of his stove and a dash of fenugreek and sold the mixture at fifty cents a pound under a high sounding name. We have found fine sand to be the chief ingredient of an alleged sovereign worm remedy for lambs. The lambs died despite or, mayhap, by reason of its administration. A sheep feeder who uses large quantities of wheat screenings annually told us that when he was buying his supply of this feed the miller mentioned incidentally that he had recently sold some two thousand tons of screenings to a manufacturer of a stock food. Such stufi makes a cheap "filler, but is it a useful or safe "condimental" food for animals? We trow not Anyhow the sheep feeder lost a lot of sheep from poisoning by corncockle seed present in the screenings. We remember a formula faker who went the rounds of livery barns and private stables some years ago. He used a liquid which by light rubbing...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153231749 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153231743 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 50 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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