FRAUDS ON FARMERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 7

FRAUDS ON FARMERS

WORTHLESS MEDICINE SYDNEY, April 3. Extraordinary disclosures of imposition by pedlars of stock medicines in the country were made to-day by Mr. C. J. Wollett, stock inspector at Lismore, in his presidential address to the Inspectors of Stock Conference.

“The time has arrived for this kind of commercial robbery to be restricted by legislative action,” lie said.

“I cannot advise you too strongly to put your stock owners on their guard against medicino pedlars unless they are travelling for reputable ami weli-known firms.”

Mr. Woollet said that, with the cooperation of the Lismore P.P. Board, a number of “cure alls” had been sent to the chemist of the Agriculture Department for analysis, with the following results: — A cattle cure: Boracic acid and permanganate of potash; value, sd; cost to farmer, £2. Cure for Bang’s disease: Copper sulphate and alum, with a little permanganate of potash; value, 9d; cost to farmer, £3 3s. Drench: Inorganic solids (sodium carbons), 3.41 per cent.; organic and volatile, 7.91 per cent.; water, with small proportion of alcohol, 88.68 per cent; value, few pence; cost to former, £2 a gallon. A cattle cure: Permanganate of potash, 10.25 per cent; copper sulphate crystals, 9.06 per cent; boric acid and coloring matter (probably red ochre); value, 8d a lb; cost to farmer, £2 5s 61b.