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Show FRAUDS. Connecticut is known as the Nutmeg state from the fact, as some say, that some of her fertile brained sons turned on the market large quaatities of wooden nutmegs manufactured by themselves, thus deceiving the public and fraudulently obtaining large sums of money. It has not been long since a sharper from one of the Eastern states bargained and sold in this county large quantities, in small measurements, measure-ments, ef oats, warranted to yield an enormous crop. The seller, of course, charged an extraordinary price for the seed oats, some fifteen dollars a bushel cash down, with the promise, in writing, writ-ing, that he would purchase the year's crop, or as much of it as the buyer wished to sell, at an equally enormous price. The grand object to be accomplished, said the vendor i a oats, was to help the farmer by introducing a superior quality of the cereal. To an ordinary mind it seems as if the fraud was so transparent that no one could possibly be deceived. Yet, the fact is, several otherwise intelligent men. were caught in the wily snare by tv-c glowing description de-scription of the fraud. Another sharp practice Is now being perpetrated on a too confining and unsuspecting people, and .that is, the selling of Canadian mongrel horses, for pure blood Shire or Clydesdale. These horses are sold with stud book numbers registered in Canada. "None of these horses," says the Breders Gazette, are registered in Amrrcan stud books, nor can they be, but they are k1j at very high prices, in some cases as high at $2,000. Further, it says, "It is time horse buyers learned to know the difference between the reputable, standard Canadian Ca-nadian stud books and those which record re-cord cross breeds and mongrels." Let the farmer, the horse buyer and all keep u sharp lookout f;.r those transient frauds and not allow themselves them-selves to I;? (UiP'.'d by their scifernii cuunjng. |