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me, nearly a hundred dollars worth of trees. Our neighbor, Mr. 

 Fogg, had engaged to take about eight hundred dollars worth of 

 stock and would have done so but another neighbor sent down 

 to see if there was any such nursery, and as he could not find 

 any such concern Mr. Fogg refused to take the stock he had 

 ordered. 



Mr. May. I remember the case of Mr. Fogg. It was a large 

 bill of some six liundred dollars. We wrote to that gentleman 

 the whole facts of the case, and as this man was not very re- 

 sponsible we wanted him to advance half of the money before we 

 shipped the stock; that he refused to do and it was not sent to 

 him; it was totally on account of Mr. Fogg's inability to pay for 

 the stock. 



Mrs. Stager. Mr. Fogg had concluded to mortgage his place 

 to get the money and he called on my husband to ask us about 

 it; and he would have done so had not he received word by this 

 neighbor when he wrote to St. Paul to find out about it. 



Prof. Maginnis. Can you show by your letter book, Mr. May, 

 in regard to those transactions'? 



Mr. May. Yes, sir; I can. • 



Mr. Bunnell. I wish to say that I have been on the road con- 

 siderable and I often come in contact with men selling Mr. May's 

 stock. Some two years ago I received a letter from my father 

 wanting to know if there was such a firm. I ftnow the agents 

 have represented the stock as being grown at Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 there was nothing wrong in that. 



Mr. May. This is unsolicited from a representative of the 

 Lake City Nursery in this State. I have no more to say. My 

 business transactions have been free and above board and I defy 

 anybody to show to the contrary; that is all I have to say. Of 

 course if you have a mind to placard me through the minutes of 

 your meeting, or the publication of your book, you are at liberty 

 to do so; but I have come here with a frank, free, open confession, 

 and stated to you the full facts of my business. I leave it with you 

 as gentlemen to act upon this in a proper way, and not to resort 

 to the low means of casting insinuations through the papers; 

 those are things I despise. Let us get right at the facts and 

 then we know what we are doing; but these insinuations we have 

 no time for. 



Mr. Eegester. Had you an agent a year or two ago by the 

 name of Fairfield "? 



Mr. May. Yes, sir; I had. 

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