THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 3, 
A MARYLAND BUTCHERS’ MONOPOLY. 
Farmers and stock raisers of Cecil 
and Kent counties, Maryland, suffer 
from one of the most peculiar bits of 
rascally legislation that has come to 
notice. These counties lie in the ex¬ 
treme northeast corner of the State; 
Cecil county bordering both Pennsyl¬ 
vania and Delaware, and Kent county 
bordering Delaware. Naturally the 
farmers have sold, until within a year 
or two, to stock buyers from towns just 
over the line in the two States. Any 
producer of any kind of wholesome food 
has a natural right to an opportunity 
to sell to any buyer from anywhere. 
But this right was ignored by the Legis¬ 
lature at Annapolis, and until the law 
is changed, or the courts act in the mat¬ 
ter, farmers are, in practice, deprived of 
the chance to sell any live stock, wool 
or furs to anyone except buyers residing 
and doing business in Kent and Cecil 
Counties. This remarkable bit of politi¬ 
cal manipulation defies the fundamental 
instincts of Americans and limits the 
freedom of trade between the States and 
between the parts of the State, but it is 
on the books. The law (Chapter 241, 
page 726, Acts 1910, Maryland), pro¬ 
vides : 
No person shall, after the first day of 
May, in the year nineteen hundred and ten, 
engage in the business of purchasing live 
stock, wool and furs for sale outside or 
within the limits of either Cecil or Kent 
Counties, or selling live stock, wool and furs 
in said counties, without first obtaining a 
license in the manner herein prescribed. 
Section 2, following this, provides for 
a license of $25 a year, to be issued by 
the clerks of the circuit courts of the 
two counties, and Section 3 provides that 
this license shall be the only license re¬ 
quired of those who take it out. Sec¬ 
tions 4 and 5 read as follows: 
And be it enacted, That if any person 
or persons shall engage within the limits 
of either of said counties in carrying on 
the business of dealing in, purchasing or 
selling any live stock, wool and furs in 
violation of the provisions of this act, he 
or they shall, upon arrest and conviction 
thereof, either before a justice of the 
peace of either of said counties, or upon 
indictment, be subject to a fine of not less 
than .$50 nor more than $100, and all costs 
of prosecution. 
Section 5. And be it enacted. That 
nothing in this act shall apply to any 
farmer or other person raising or buying 
any live stock to feed, fatten or otherwise 
improve, or prohibit him from marketing 
the same; nor to butchers buying live stock 
to be slaughtered and sold within said 
counties. 
Here, then, we have a law which re¬ 
quires a license to buy live stock, wool 
or furs. This license is not required of 
farmers, stock raisers or local butchers, 
though butchers pay a license to sell 
under a previous law. This leaves just 
one class who must pay in order to be 
allowed to huy the farmer’s product, 
and that class is made up entirely of 
those non-residents of the two counties 
who would naturally bid against the 
local butchers. The law was put 
through by the activity of a few butch¬ 
ers in the two counties, combining with 
politicians in the Maryland House and 
Senate in Annapolis and approved by 
Austin L. Crothers, then Governor but 
now in private life. In effect it gives 
a monopoly in buying wool, hides and 
live stock to the local butchers of the 
two counties and punishes any person 
who bids against them while within 
either of the two counties of the 
State of Maryland. Farmers with 
hogs, cattle, sheep or hides to sell 
must either take them out of the two 
counties to show them, which is not 
practical, or take whatever price the 
local butchers offer, and accept also the 
weight the local butcher’s scales declare 
to be correct. 
The Constitution of Maryland, adopted 
in 1867, seems to contain only one pro¬ 
vision against such an outrage. Article 
1st of the Declaration of Rights has the 
clause; “All government of right origi¬ 
nates from the people, is founded in 
compact only,, and instituted solely for 
the good of the whole.” This might or 
might not be interpreted by a court as 
prohibiting the granting of a monopoly 
to buy, in certain localities. But the 
Act conflicts with the Constitution of the 
United States which says: Section 9: 
“No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Arti¬ 
cles exported from any State.” Plainly 
enough this Maryland law taxes the 
farmer’s product when it requires a 
buyer of it to pay for the freedom to 
buy. The law also violates the entire 
spirit of our government and laws in 
that it interrupts trade between the 
States, unduly favoring persons residing 
in the two counties and requiring a tax 
to be paid by persons residing in other 
States. As far as we remember, free¬ 
dom of trade between the several States 
has never before, in time of peace, been 
interrupted by legislative action. The 
taxing of a selling business is common 
enough, being a tax on profits or “good 
will” which is a form of property. But 
a tax that works to prevent freedom 
of sale by the farmer to the best bidder 
who comes to his farm, is inexcusable. 
The Legislature of Maryland is Demo¬ 
cratic in both houses, but there is a 
Republican in the Governor’s chair and 
some strong men in both parties who 
may be willing to brave the wrath of the 
butchers who now have the farmers of 
the two counties by the throats, and 
vote to repeal so infamous a measure. 
O. R. WASHBURN. 
R. N.-Y.—In the early part of the last 
century before the Federal constitution 
was adopted tariff levied by one State 
against goods from another were quite 
frequent. After the constitution was 
adopted all such things were of course 
prohibited. 
Mange. 
Can you tell me what is the matter and 
what to do with my horses? Late this 
Fall one horse would scratch one hind leg 
with the other; lately he has broken out 
like the itch. When I clean him the comb 
seems to tickle, and he rubs himself when¬ 
ever he gets a chance. Now the other horse 
does the same thing, but he has broken 
out in patches the size of the hand, and 
the hair has all come out. I keep a 
blanket on both in the stable. w. R. K. 
New Jersey. 
Clip both horses and then wash affected 
parts with a 1-50 solution of coal tar dip. 
Afterwards saturate the parts with a mixture 
of four ounces of flowers of sulphur and 
half an ounce of coal tar dip shaken up 
in a pint of sweet oil. Repeat the appli¬ 
cation of sulphur and oil every three days 
and do not wash again affected parts. Bet¬ 
ter clean up, disinfect and whitewash the 
stable. Also keep the affected horses iso¬ 
lated until well. a. s. a. 
Warts On Colt. 
We have a colt. 19 months old. which 
is seemingly healthy, but still _ she has 
several lumps on her nose and lips. One. 
on her nose, is as large as a robin’s egg; 
the others on her lip are small, some 
scarcely large enough to be seen. There 
are a dozen or two easily. The. one on her 
nose is often bloody and bleeding. They 
don’t seem to hurt, as she does not flinch 
on being touched there. I have thought 
they might be warts. If they are, what 
can I do to cure them? If not warts, 
what do you think they are? She has 
always been healthy and lively. When she 
was a dav or two old we noticed a large 
lump on ‘ her throat. Two veterinarians 
treated her at different times and it finally 
went away. It was cut several times. 
She was in good health then and has been 
ever since. She is not fat but is in good 
condition. She is in the stable and gets 
hay and oats, about three quarts of oats 
a day. I turn her out in the pasture 
almost daily for exercise. E. B. 
Kansas. 
Rub the wart-covered parts twice daily 
with best castor oil and the warts should 
soon disappear. Add one-fifth part of 
wheat bran to the whole oats and feed twice 
daily with best mixed clover and Timothy 
hay as roughage. Carrots would be good 
for the colt. A. s. A. 
Cow With Indigestion. 
What is the trouble with my cow? I 
bought her last September for a Guernsey, 
Six years old. Six weeks or so ago I 
first noticed her holding her head up and 
sticking her nose out so her face was level 
with her back or higher, and gas seemed 
to be rolling about inside her and coming 
up her throat. Her paUnch looks full all 
the time. For a while after housing time, 
she was kept on good hay and two quarts 
mixed feed and two quarts cornmeal twice 
per day, but for a month or more her hay 
has been of a poorer quality, although nice¬ 
ly cured, containing some weeds and brakes, 
and recently in place of the cornmeal have 
fed one quart of dark colored cottonseed. 
She gets two feedings of hay in the morn¬ 
ing and no dinner, but the first evening 
feed about four o’clock, and water twice 
per day after eating. We have no yard so 
she has to stand fastened to her stanchion; 
her stall is light and warm. She has oc¬ 
casionally a pail of apples or a pan of 
parings. In November her average milk 
yield was 28.3 pounds per day. She fresh¬ 
ened in September.' c. h. r. 
Maine. 
The cow scarcely could help having in¬ 
digestion when so fed and managed. She 
should have exercise every day and be fed 
morning, noon and night, with water when¬ 
ever she wants to drink. Provide her with 
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or dried brewers’ grains. If she still bloats 
have her tested with tuberculin, as tuber¬ 
culosis is a common caues of chronic bloat¬ 
ing. Indeed it would be.well to have her 
tested on general principles. If she proves 
to be free from the disease and still bloats 
give her in feed night and morning a heap¬ 
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