The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1905, Page 12

The Seedless Apple Fraud | cern which this tremendous advertis- (ie 121) Beans, Peas as Gan! ing is causing our principal competi-| Legumes as Food. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DENOUNCES SCHEME AS HUMBUG jtors in the export apple trade. The (No. 32) Silos and Silage. Tasmanian government council has in- (No. 154) The Home Fruit Garden; stituted an official inquiry whether this | Preparation and Care. new development is likely to so revolu-| (No, 33) Peach Growing for Market tionize the character of the fruit which (No. 34) Meats; Composition anc |we export to Europe, and which | Cooking. is in competition with them, as to ne.| (No, 192) Barnyard Manure. cessitate their securirg and growing} (No. 200) Turkeys; Standard Varie this seedless variety. ties and Management Th St Id Hi k Colonel Brackett states that thus far (No. 214) Beneficial Bacteria for e rong 1¢ ory One of Uncle Sam's duties, and it is; either paper stock or nursery stock, in| no tree or scion of this alleged remark-|Leguminous Crops. an extremely important one, is showing| New York State. lable apple has been placed in the hands : - up, and where possible, stopping The attractive plan proposed by the | of any disinterested experimenter, and oe frauds and fakes and preventing the! parent Spencer company, as learned at} jt js significant that there are not as Proper Seasoning of Farm Imple- people from being mulcted of their|the Department of Agriculture, is that/yet any trees or scions for sale, al Savings. Through its issuance of| these subsidiary or local seedless apple though it is stated tha, several million meats, “fraud orders” the Postoffice Depart-| companies may be formed in the vari- ment prevents millicns of dollars eve ous States. The local company is to year from being squandered on worth-, pay a cash bonus to the mother com- less projects and fake schemes ex-] pany and also issue it 51 per cent. of ploited through cunning advertise-j its stock—a controlling interest. The ments. The vigilance of the Govern-| public is to be let in on the remainder, In Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions to GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. Tt is full time that all mowing ma- chines, harvesters, and other horse implements should be left out in the tield to obtain the benefit of the fall weather. Plows and harrows will, of course, be needed yet, and these will ment against lottery concerns is an-/ 49 per cent, To facjlitate the sale of| : ead [be Kept under cover for awhile, but other instance. So much is done now|this stock Assistant Pomologist W. aN Sep can “ea left out biter after the fall through clever advertising that officials} A. Taylor says that the company some- Did one 23 plowing. This practice of fall weath- have come to be very chary about giv-| time ago issued a statement to the ef: : .* ae ering of implements is quite general in ing their indorsement to any schemes| fect that the retail price of trees will which have not been pretty thoroughly | be held up to $3 each, while the cost to tried out. the local company will not exceed 50 ‘ ss cents, and it is estimated that on a The Spencer “Scediess” Apple. | jocal’ investment of $5,000, $60,000 A case in point was the efforts of the} could be quickly rounded up. Colorado seedless and coreless apple “It seems,” said Mr. Taylor, who in concern, headed by a Mr. Spencer,| speaking of the matter appeared to be which attempted last year to secure the! entirely convinced of the shadyness of many farming sections and is encour- aged from year to year by a large class of farmers. Ht insures thorough weathering of the wood and produces in the metal parts of the machinery PHOTOGRAPH OF “SEEDLESS” APPLES SOLD TO MESSRS. SHEARN FOR 30 SHILLINGS APIECE. trees are being grown in New York, Iowa, Utah and Colorado. It is questionable whether the Fraud Order Office of the Postoffice Depart- ment wiil be able to bar the use of the mails to the company owing to the|@ fine brown color. The practice is skillful preparation of its literature,}#! entirely satisfactory one to the a though such action, it is stated, would | implement sellers as a class. 9 be sustained by all reputable fruit men e and nurserymen. The wonder of the whole story is Pickles aad Babies, that in the face of such lamentable failures where the promoters have con- sented to exhibit their apples the work a still goes forward of successfully fool- recently, ing the people. It is not denied that} _ ‘ond Mother” wrote in to find out there is an apple which may be called| Wt she should do.for her children seedless and with an imperfectly de- who had the whooping cough, In the veloped core; but: it is a freak ‘and| ™ake up the compositor got some MANUFACTURED BY Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FARM WAGONS IN THE WORLD A Quarter of a Century of unfailing service An exchange made an unfortunate error in its “Answers to Correspond- AMERICAN CROWN ¢ worthless, and, moreover, is thousands | items transposed and the answer read: ; of years old. Wherever the Spencer| “If not too young, skin them | tga green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect apple has been exhibited it has been a| thoroughly; immerse in scalding} cleanser for automobile machinery and al! ‘ fizzle. One claim made by the company | Water, sprinkle plentifully with salt, | yenicies; will not injure the most highly ; * is because the apple is bloomless it| ®nd leave for a week in strong) polished surface. Made from pure vegetable s offers no opportunity for the codling| brine.” Horrors! He misplaced the | oils. If your dealer does not carry American % moth to lay its eggs, that, therefore,/@answer to “Anxious Housekeeper’s” | Crown Soap in stock, send ushis name and roves the : ep SAUCE the apple cannot be wormy. One of the | Query for a pickled onion recipe. address and we willsee that your wants are P £ apples reluctantly submitted by the or supplied. Put up in 124% 25 and 50 Ib pails, ABSO! UTE LITY 4, PHOTOGRAPHS OF “SEEDLESS AND CORELESS” APPLES FURNISHED THE Spencer people to Colonel Brackett, the ae , — L RELIABI DEVARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BY THE SPENCER COMPANY, |Pomologist of the Department, con- Everything Was the Same, James $ Kirk & Com any of the Mi indorsement_of the Fruit Division of|the scheme, “that all of the people con-| tained, when cut, a good, fat codling| 4 young Oxford student one day re- | _ we p ° the partment of A culture, The, nected with the general company, with | 0th worm, while all the apples sub-] weiyed an unexpecied visit from his . CHICAGO. ILL. 2 apple men of the Department were ex-| the exception of the president, or al-| pretty sister, and was very indignant 2 treme doubtful of the claims made | leged discoverer of the new apple, are | that she came without a chaperon, e by Mr pencer that he had evolved a/ men entirely unknown to the horticul- “Look here,” said the young man, “I; BOOKS BOOKS seedless apple which would revolu-| tural world,” will not ha ve any of the fellows see you in my rooms, so if anyone knocks iall at the door you just get behind that TYPEWRITER We have published some good ones spec- tionize the apple industry of the coun- y suited for farmers, Books that will help try, and they were wise in refusing to Reckless Statements give it indorsement. Colonel Brackett,| The company appears to be well or- dlicpedl' | every farmer to make-more_out of his farm_}WYGKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT tuibiiiae! A rset wee 3 ir,” Taylor, i “the statements — mad: foor, An old gentleman stood on the ad an WI1C fooling ang def the public | through ihe public press, for which the Which has ever been attempted along | ©O™pany cannot be held accountable, agricultural lines. ‘Taking advantage |42d which are influencing the people, of the remarkable results of fruit and | have been recklessly misleading and plant improvement made by Luther) "true." The sirewd method by which Burbank and other wizards of plant| this apple was advertised in England science, the statement was sprung upon} Md again readvertised in the United an unsuspecting newspaper p and | Stat hows that a master brain is en- public that a wonderful seed and Sineering the promotion of the scheme coreless apple had been di covered, | Having prepared the British public Hundreds of columns of newspaper de: through numerous articles, for some- scriptions of this fruit have sine » | Lp! plat a dara of Be ee Feared in not only the dally and weskly inciosed ta ‘a plesb-lined Ueveley bax. ir.” was the rejoinder, “same old SEND FOR CATALOGUE The English papers contménted widely} THE “SEEDLFESS” APPLE PRESENTED | “r+ WILLIAM BROS., Ithaca, N. Y. upon the occurrence and several addi- TO KING EDWARD. | aaa an tional apples were sold at public auc-| mitted to the Department and to the | tion for enormous prices, and the pro-| st “Louis Exposition apple judges cor- | cially well written encomium on this | (ained either seeds or cores, The threshold, who, after profusely apolo- e e g for his intrusion, said: “I am e r lin t home from Australia, and many rs ago I occupied these rooms; | would you allow me, sir, to look at} Machines ‘hem once again?” “Certainly,” said | the student, “come in.” “Ah.” eX | Over 70 sizes and styles for drillin; aimed the old man, “everything 18) either deep or shallow wells in any kin ‘ust the same. Same old table, of soilor rock. Mounted on wheels or Md fireplace, same old scree sills, With engines or horse powers. eatching sieht of the gir! vittned tu Strong, simple and durable. Any me- came old dodge.” “Sir,” exclaimed the | chanic can operate them easily, tndent, “thit is my sister.” “Gad, aa ‘4 HAY PRESS The Baler for speed. Bales 12 to 18 tons a day. Has 40 inch feed hole, Adapted to bank barn work, Stands up to its work—no digging holes for wheels, Self-feed Altachment increases cap- acity, lessens labor, makes better bales A Few Afterthoughts, The Chinese women are being wean- a iia ne vee 4 inal and does not increase draft, — ia a ween the | apples were, moreover, small and i8-}oq from the old custom of binding 4 American Consul £0. our Depart. | feTlor; but the newspaper account of |:neir feet, and it is stated that the y ment of Commerce and through its ad- these events tell a different tale. practice now obtains only among the Scad for Catalogue vance consular sheets distributed to NS pith " Do Oe tie oe axa | 1 it ting 0 2 Bre omar “1 sriously + if Congress lid shield of metal ceremony connected with the cutting of | The great demand upon the Depart would Megupacess henisnat I fetween the shooter's |ji| 124 Main Street, Sandwich, Ilt .two_apples which brought the largest | Ment of Agriculture for some of the|spends the entire on discussing : ween, the > is CROSS SECTION OF SPENCER SEEDLESS | PTices—namely, $15. A number of d enti te aes il te nlite APPLE, REPRODUCED FROM SPEN. | tinguished British horticulturists were | "cd free, has necessitated the reprint- opie ve . 1 ake rom | /28 of quite a list of these valuable lit- CER CATALOGUE. present, the apples were taken f tle pamphlets. Among others of gen- the tariff and reciprocity. eam) head an eth “T reflect with sorrow over the spies avay from bin S I ( ) S justification of the claim you make < tens ee of having lent me your copstant sup- { gases from enterin; v storage cases, and everything was | ; . r ” ‘ “icaroy i Pi papers, but in magazines and scientific pelle jewelery until the Ais |eral interest which are available are: port,” says Lord Curzon, the viceroy | bed ace iw ny Pine, Fir, Cypress and Yellow Pine, journals. was applied, then it was found that the|_ (No. 41) Fowls; Their Care andjof India, recently deposed “ be gpobstrasted. saints | Write for Catalogue, Pee Ribera IAI , -ove. | Feeding, instance of Premier Balfour. ne} ks ily and Plans for Sinking Money, pat ee TAME Guenauers, (No. 44) Commercial Fertilizers; | Premier understood just what Lord i smoothly, making very Eagle Tank Co., 281 N. Green 8t., It now turns out that the Spencer) 7° ‘ Shearn, demanded their money | Their Composition: and Use. Curzon indicated, and had the nerve, Pg Bg | Chicago, Ill, i seedless apple, so far as its being aj, oP" © : on (No. 63) Care of Milk on the Farm.|he probably called back, “you'r anoth-| jj - ating locking gevice f new and valuable production is con-| ° (No. 64) Ducks and Geese; Standard | er.” makes the Bias Hi IF Y AN cerned, is an entire fake, and it would Must Make the Fakirs Smile. Breeds and Management. The customs officials are alarmed] | | safest ag gage | ou W. T A JACK appear that the plan is more of a stock} A somewhat amusing feature, as re-|. (No. 113) The Apple and How tojat the apparent fact that there are | : » 0 tO , send for our Jack Catalogue, Sure to cos and bond selling proposition than a| jated by Colonel Brackett, is the com ' Grew It. more TH na cigars in the country Testrations, cover in tain the description of exactly what you weat nursery stock raising one, The seed- than is warranted by the imports of three Hydraulic Jacks our Specialty less and coreless apple is almost as old ‘avana tobacco, They have proba-| ff The Marlin FireArms Co. bly omitted to calenlate to include the | j% ‘New Haven, Conn. Watson-Stillman Co., hickory and cabbage-leaf crop. 46 Dey St., N. Y¥. City. ‘Che Missoula Rursery the European courts, looking for some- body who will accept him. The idea that the scarcity of ser- vant girls is due to their all having become writers of novels, is probably party? Producers of Northern grown acclimated trees and the best Helen Bertram has been up before varieties for planting in Northern States, 1 aee sak magistrate for failure ‘o pay her debts. “At the same time, her husband is playing in “The Prod- ; ‘ i her husband 48 piaying Every Variety of Standard Fruit suggested by the quality of current _——>_— fiction. 4 Trial by Telephone, as history, Pliny, the Roman natural- ist, described it two thousand years ago. Hundreds of references appear in the books of horticulturists about this freak, the whvle story having been de- scribed by Professor Bailey of Cornell about fifieen years ago. The bad faith of the Spencer apple people is shown in their circulating a partial quotation from Professor Bailey written about the seedless apple years ago, and hav- ing no reference to the so-called Spen- cer seedless apple. The reason now appears for the care- ful educational work done among the mewspapers last year. The Spencer Seedless Apple Company of New York has beer organized with alleged nur- series in Niagara County, has issued a Magnificent catalogue with a full col- ored lithograph of the “Spencer seed- less apple,” and also showing cross sec- tions of the apple with no semblance of eo Robert Willard, a f livi e illard, a farmer living near Newspapers Which Bit. Meet fy Ne Elkhart, in Logan county, Illinois, up- This catalogue contai: umerous ex- ‘j \\ ; i on being arrested by Constable Pettit tracts from papers all ovér the country v | , on a charge of intoxication and dis- lauding the Spencer seedless apple al- REG, }, AN * orderly conduct, pleaded guilty by tele- most to the skies. The truth is, that , / phone. When he was informed of the -gome of the most conservative papers $14-fine by the justice in Lincoln, he e successfully roped in and uncon- é | , j , agreed to send the amount by mail. ey phan BH 4 \ {8 | cs 8 oreo is unique in central Illinois ‘written for them d y ; " / j lence, themselves, and these very papers are Z / ‘ The constable found Willard busily Mow quoted in the catalogues distrib- ff / 1 y engaged in a cornfield and read the ‘Bled by the company. Such eminent : if was all. tight,’ Sor polaied to tee “mames appear as 5 4 / t ‘ as e bar} Buffalo Inquirer, both of ile } ee : - work that he was doing and declared enthusiastic editorials, the Ameri- =)! age = iG that he could not possibly lose a-day eherert ~ ap her ee i ‘<> ~ : dh re =. aves to Lincoln may wait- entific American, 3 , ; ‘or trial. He suggested use of ercial, the New York Herald, the : a the telephone, and when the constable Germany and France have reached an agreement over Morocco that is “entirely satisfactory to both parties.” : Thoroughly tested Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries and Trees Ornamental, Small Fruit Plants, Shrubs, Vines and Roses, . “2 THE -EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY A SPECIALTY OF FLOWERING PLANTS AND SHRUBS Cut Flowers and Floral Designs. Also Vegetable Plants shipped by express. Catalogue and Price List Free, Mail orders have prompt attention. et, benerera Oe: Sere] KS. | fve ruled to the fermen et] MISSOULA NURSERY CO, = The Public to Pay the Profits nally they got connection with Justice ‘This New York apple company 1s but - ae Tip wena tdnoala, 204 over the wise » of the MISSOULA, MONTANA, the unique trial was held. The justice bsi iiary companies, with ay “the tight to sell stock, Snood, etter later with the fine