-— The Seedless Apple Fraud DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DENOUNCES SCHEME AS HUMBUG GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. ing is causing our principal competi. tors in the export apple trade. The Tasmanian government council has in- Stituted an official Inquiry whether this new development is likely to so revolu- { tionize the character of the fruit which {we export to Burope, and which is In competition with them, as to ne. cessitate their securing and growing this seedless variety, One of Uncle Sam's duties, and it is an extremely important one, is showing up, and where possible, stopping frauds and fakes and preventing the people from being muleted of their savings, Through its Issuance of “fraud orders” the Postoflice Depart ment prevents millicns of dollars every year from being squandered on worth. less projects and fake schemes ex ploited through unning advertise ments, The vigilax of the rn ment against lottery concerns is an other instance. So much I8 done now Gove through clever advertising that officials | have come to be very chary about giv ing their indorsement any which have not been pretty thoroughly tried out, to schemes The Spencer “Scedless” Apple. A case in point was the efforts of the ] i geedless and coreless § y a Mr Spencer, 18L year Lo sex ! headed ich attempted ls apple | ure the | i Colonel Brackett states that thus far either paper stock or nursery stock, In | ng tree or scion of this alleged remark. New York State, lable apple has been placed in the hands The attractive plan proposed by the | of any disinterested experimenter, and parent Spencer company, as learned at | {t js gignificant that there are not as ey op paysite, Jn that yok anv oes av scious for wi #8 | : 1] het though it is stated thay several million { companies may be formed in the vari ous States, The local company is to C pay a cash bonus to the mother com- | pany and also issue it 61 per cent, of | its stock a controlling interest. The { public i8 to be let in on the remainder 4) per cent To facilitate the sale of {this stock Assistant Pomologi W. | A. Taylor says that the company some time ago issued a statement to the ef { fect that the retail price trees will | be held up to $3 the cost to the local company exceed B60 cents, and it is estimated that on a local Investment of § £60.000 | coul 1 be quickly rounded “It seems,” d Mr speaking of the matter entirel) t Of while will not Cuen y TMM) up. 8a viar, who in appeared to be PHOTOGRAPH OF “SEEDLESS" APPLES BOLD TO MESSRS, SHEARN FOR 30 SHILLINGS APIECE. trees are Iowa, Utah an It is quest Order Office | ment will be able I tO the skillful prepar hough suck belng 4 : grown Colorado whether the Fraud | Post Depart to bar the use of the company owing to the 1 of its literature, action, It is stated, would | be sustained by all reputable fruit men and 1 ymen The wonder of the whole | that in the face of such failures where the promoters have con. sented to exhibit thelr apples the work still goes fo {f successfully fool ing the pe . denled that there is an apple may be called seedless and with an imperfectly de i veloped but it Is a freak and {| worthless, and, moreover, Is thousands {of years old, Wherever the { apple has been exhibited it has been a fizzle, One claim made by the company ia because the apple bloomless |t no opportunity for the codling in New York, 101 imbie of the " ~ office tine Aaliog ii story Is lamentable yr i # not which a core: Spencer in lay- its eges, that, ther efore, PHOTOGRAPHS OF “SEEDLESS DEPARTMENT OF Indorsement of the Fruit Division of] the Department of Agriculture The apple men of the Department were ex tremely doubtful of the claims made by Mr. Spencer that he had evolved al apple which would revolu-| ze the apple industry of the coun- they were wise In refusing to AND ( : | Jess apple propaganda is apparently one of the most carefully considered and intelligently worked out schemes for | fooling and defrauding the public] which has ever been attempted along | agricultural lines Taking advantage | of the remarkable results of fruit and plant improvement made by Luther Burbank end other wizards of plant science, the stalement was sprung upon an unsuspecting newspaper press and public that a wonderful seedless and coreleas apple had been discovered, Hundreds of columns of newspaper de- scriptions of this fruit have since ap- peared in not only the daily and weekly v 3 ’ } 1 ’ CROSS SECTION OF SPENCER SEEDLESS APPLE, REPRODUCED FROM SPEN- | CER CATALOGUE. papers, but in magazines and sclentifi Journals Plans for Sinking Money. It now turns out that the Spencer seedless apple, so far as its being a new and valuable production is con-| cerned, is an entire fake, and it would | appear that the plan is more of a stock | and bond selling proposition than a nursery stock raising one. The seed less and coreless apple is almost as old as history. Pliny, the Roman natural ist, described it two thousand years ago. Hundreds of references appear in the books of horticulturists sbout this freak, the whole story having been de scribed by Professor Balley of Cornell about fifleen years ago. The bad faith of the Spencer apple people is shown in their circulating a partial quotation from Professor Balley written about the seadless 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 newspapers last year. The Spencer Seedless Apple Company of New York has been organized with alleged nur series in Niagara County, has issued & magnificent catalogue with a full col ored lithograph of the “Spencer seed less apple.” and alse showing cross sec. tions of the apple with no semblance of core or seed Newspapers Which Bit, This catalogue contalng numerus ex tracts from papers all over the country lauding the Spencer seedless apple al most to the skies. The truth is, thal some of the most conservative papers were successfully roped In and uncon. sciously published articles specially written for them by the propagandists themselves, and these very papers are pow quoted in the catalogues distrib | uted by the company. Such eminent names appear as the New York Times, the Buffalo Inquirer, both of which bad enthusiastic editorials, the Amer! ean Inventor, the New York Farmer the Sclentific American, the Buffalo Commercial, the New York Herald, the National Nurseryman, the Denver Times and a score of others, The Public to Pay the Profits This New York apple company is but one of the subsidiary companies, with apparently the right to sell stock, » AGRICULTURE BY THI | tional apples were & | tion for « { prices—namely, $15 0 | cannot be wormy. One of the tantly submitted by the ple to Colonel Brackett, the the Department, con t. a good, fat codling al apples subd 'ORELESS". API SPEN( LES FU] ER COMPANY. THE the scheme, “that all of the people con | nected with the general company, with the exception of the president, or al leged discoverer of the new apple, are men entirely unknown to the hort tural world." the ui Reckless Statements The company appears to be well or ‘ot. statements in all the literature issued by the « pany are very skillfully worded,” said Mr. Taylor, *tl mad through the public press, for whict company cannot be held account and which are influencing the people have been recklessly mi ng at untrue.” The shrewd method by this apple was advertised in Enz ] and again readvertised in the United States shows that a master brain is en gineering the promotion of the scheme Having prepared the British publie through numerous articles, for some thing startling, a specimen of the less apple was sent to King Edw inclosed in a plush-lined jJewelr 1¢ stalementis a giead wi goo iil | corn which this iremendous advertis- (No. 121) Beans, Peas and Other Legumes as Food, (No. 32) Silos and Silage, (No, 164) The Heme Fruit Garden: Preparation and Care, (No, 33) Peach Growing for Market (No. 34) Meats; Composition and Cooking (No, 192) Barnyard Manure. 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BROADWAY, SEW TORK Sandwich SELF FELD FULL CIRCLE TWO BORSE HAY PRESS | student, “that is my sister” sir was the rejoinder, 3 - rye 8a ID« i The English papers comments A SENTED upon the occurrer i 10TTM written cially well happening and apple was innocently transm itis by the American Consul to our Depart ment of Commerce and through its ad vance consular sheets distributed to every newspaper in the United States A feature of this incident the ceremony connected with tb tting of two apples which brought the largest A number of dis tinguished British horticulturists were present, the apples were taken from cold storage cases, and everything was proceeding beautifully until the knife was applied, then it was found that the apples were neither seedless nor core less and the indignant purchasers, Messrs, Shearn, demanded thelr money back Must Make the Fakirs Smile. A somewhat amusing feature, as re lated by Colonel Brackett, is the cos encom in 4] im this value of the) 0 » ¢ on the 4 » ferior: it Lhe these events tell & Farm Bulletins, WAR upon the Depart for some of the Farmers’ Bulletins, which are distril uted fre i the reprint ing of quite a list of these valuable lit tie pamphleis, Among others of gen eral interest wi are avallable are (No. 41) Fowis, Th« Care and Feeding. (No. #4) Commercial Their Composition and Use. (No. 83) Care of Milk on the Farm (No. 64) Ducks and Geese: Standard | Breeds and Management, (No. 113) The Apple and How to ‘Grow It mand ire T° The great {ment of Agri ~ ult ui wo, has necessitated il Fertilizers; | story.” | the ————————I A A Few ANerthoughts. Ww ney ment woul 1 spends riously entire o tariff and reciprocity “I reflect with sorrow over tu justification of the claim you ke of having lent me your constant sup port,” sars Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, recently deposed t the | instance of Premier Balfour. If the | Premier understood just what Lord Curson Indicated, and had the nerve he probably called back, “you'r anoth the Had ¥ cnstoms officials are alarmed wpparent fact that there are more Havana cigars In the antes than Is warranted hy the Imports of Havana They have proba bly omitted to calculate to include the hickory and cabbage leaf erop. The King of Bpain is again touring the European courts, looking for some body who will accept him. The ea that the scarcity of ser vant girls 1s due to thelr all having become writers of novels, Is probably suggested by the quality of current fiction Germany and France have reached an agreement over Morocco that “entirely satisfactory to both parties” How about the feelings of the third party? Helen Bertram has been up before a New York magistrate for failure to pay her debts. At the same time, her husband Is playing in “The Prod igal Son.” M tohacoo, In —— A Trial by Telephone. 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