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now groaning under the weight of the raw and 

 manufactured material, that was expected ere 

 this to have been sold, and the profits pocketed, 

 should disarm the resentment of the heretofore 

 cheated purchasers, and leave nothing more to 

 be desired even by the most vindictive spirit. 



These wholesale Peter Funks have too long 

 imposed, their bogus compounds upon a confiding 

 community. We hope and believe that the 

 information given in our book will have its 

 effect, in depriving them of the opportunity for 

 further wrong doing ; and we may even hope 

 against hope, that they themselves may be 

 brought to a proper sense of their dishonesty. 

 As for ourselves, we have only a common interest 

 in performing a common duty ; for when a wrong 

 is perpetrated on communities or the people at 

 large, no private person has the right to cover 

 up or condone the offence ; but it is the duty of 

 all alike, to the full extent of their knowledge 

 and ability, to aid in bringing the offenders to 

 justice and punishment, and especially is it a 

 duty in a case like this, which affects the most 

 vital interests of all the production of the neces- 

 saries of life. And besides this, the deserved pre- 

 judices that have been produced against the use 

 of commercial fertilizers, if not intelligently 

 directed, will undoubtedly prove a national 

 calamity. 



