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be also effectually remedied by cutting open the 

 foot and rubbing in a preparation, the ingredients 

 of which could be obtained only of the advertiser ; 

 that this remedy was the result of years of study 

 at the expense of thousands of dollars. 



I also learned that there were thirty or forty 

 "best" remedies for vermin, fifteen or twenty 

 "only" remedies for vermin, and at least a dozen 

 "best and only" remedies for vermin. Indeed, 

 so much was said of the ravages of vermin that 

 I felt quite crawly every time I finished a poul- 

 try magazine. 



