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Show Hay Rogues. In answer to the article in ycBtor-, ycBtor-, day mornine's Herald, headed 'Hay Rogues," Mr. John Snell, weigher, sends in a little nolo, exonerating exon-erating weighers. He says that, for one, he does not take the word of sellers. It ie one of his rules that teamsters driving mules or horses shall be on (be scales when the hay is being weighed, and alterwardB when the wagon is be'ng weighed, while ox teamsters ehall be off both times, Mr. Snell acknowledges the correct oes3 of the article about the tricks practiced and Bays: "A teamBter, the other day, w hoce load of grain I was weighing, stood with one foot on the scales, endeavoring to bear upon them and thus increase the weight, but happening to catch bim, I spoiled his little dodge." It was not the intention to intimate tbat weighers enter into collusion with sellers, but that tbey are sometimes not as careful as they could be. If a teamBter geta his wagon weighed once on a man's scalea, it ie thought unnecessary (o weigh it again ; but when it is stated that cages have been known where sellers have taken a light wagon once, and knowing that the wagon would not be weighed again, have afterwards used one that will weigh from 200 to 400 pounds more than the first one, the neceeiity of weighing every time will become apparant. These hay Bbarps seem to forget tbat they may some time mo across a man who will punish them for this species of robbery. |