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Show Honest Parmer's Swindles . Salt Lake City, Dec' 0. Edifor Herald: I send you specimens of ' 'Gram" received during last week from our "Honest Farmers." Are we to he longer imposed upon, or can the city authorities appoint an inspector of ail ; Farmer's and other produce brought into this market for sale? for when wo have to accept of rocks, dirt, sod, sunflower sun-flower stalks, cockle seed, peas, smut, chalt', &c.f &c., for wheat, oats and barley; and we are expected to buy water for hay. slate- for coal, shorts for Hour, hair, lard and cheese for butter, and all that sort of thing, without any redress, how pan we expect to show to the workl our superiority in fanning tkc. ' A hint is sufficient. Yours Truly, Geo. H. Kxuivloen, The specimens of "grain" sent us by Jlr. Knowlden arc curiosities almost al-most worthy of preservation in the museum of the city a? .samples of tlie products Qfrcclaiined alkalis!. First wo have h boulder weighing eleven pounds and a quarter, taken from a sack of wheat which was bought al eighty cents a bushel. Next we have a cinmp of sprouted and decayed oats and dirt, about a i;p(. square, weigh?-! weigh?-! ing eleven pounds and a half, whir.li was paid lur at the rat( of 81.50 a bushel. Then wc have a box of pebbles, oats, dirt and stones intermingled, also costing $1.. 50 a bushel. These samples can ho seen, weighed, measured, and tested at tho Herald office, Thoro is very little prospect of the boulder yielding richly in silver, copper or gold, and il assayed, even at a Government assay office, wc doubt if it would show cost price sixteen cents. That aDy person per-son could be guilty of bringing to market such stuff as enumerated by Mr. Knowlden, and swindling merchants mer-chants with it, would scarcely be believed be-lieved but for the present in the wicks of tho storn, hard facta. Last tall, when lajge quan'ities of dried peaches were being purchased, the same gentleman, chancing to examine ex-amine some sacks brought in but not yet settled for, discovered that four uutol the five contained nothing but peach pits. Tho short way to reach the perpetrators of such ' rascality is to bring them before the Doctor for .-windling. A few notable examples would undoubtedly have a salutary Hied, and wc hope to be able to re-curd re-curd them. "Wo shall take special delight in recording the name, size, .-Intpc, weight and color of even- man captured. |