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No oil is being sold to speak of where growers are organized and now 

 it rests with the growers to take care of themselves by simply holding for 

 the price until the demand comes, which will not exceed 60 days, as not one 

 tenth of the oil needed has been bought nor is in stock, and above all things 

 do not be scared into throwing away your hard earnings. Come together and 

 talk over the matter. Read up-to-date literature and get the true situation of 

 the markets and prices of all farm products. Wayne and Seneca counties, 

 New York, report only half crop. 



Muskegon county, Michigan which has been known to have 60 000 pounds 

 has only 10 000 pounds this season. Growers in all mint growing districts 

 report short crop more or less, with but few exceptions. Conditions have 

 been bad most of the summer and so reported in farm papers where they 

 had the truth, one paper reports 50 pounds to the acre average. This is 

 preposterous and never was known, except here and there a little. Indiana 

 has suffered more than Michigan, these are facts and generally admitted by 

 those who know. 



Now get a hustle and get organized, take membership in the Society, 

 including the Essential Oil branch only $ 2.00 per year, giving you information 

 from time to time and the official paper, Up -to -Date Farming, published at 

 Indianapolis, Ind., in the interests of profitable prices on all farm crops. 



Remember if anything is done to help the farmer, he must attend to it 

 himself and he will always be duped until he does it. 



October nth — This circular has been withheld from going out to learn 

 if possible the cause of the depression in the market. The foregoing are the 

 facts from reliable authority. "Some speculators in the East as well as West 

 depressed the market for the very purpose of lowering it, and partly to the 

 fact that a number of small dealers as well as growers made a large number 

 of offers promiscuously, offering the same amount of oil to a number of houses 

 which further hurt the market. The conditions accordingly are very unsatis- 

 factory". What has been said in this circular is all in order and a good 

 demand must come, as all admit the crop is much less than last year. 



For information or membership write to any of the undersigned, 



T. J. G. Bolt, Ravenna, Michigan, 



Pres. and Chairman of Board of Essential Oil Branch. 



R. E. Osborn, Secretary, Sherwood, Michigan. 



Geo. C. Wattles, General Organizer, Sherwood, Michigan. 



In the opinion of our New York branch, too much importance 

 should not be attached to these resolutions. 



Peppermint Oil, English. The sum total of the reports from 

 the English peppermint districts is this, that this year on the average 

 only one third of a normal harvest must be reckoned upon, as the 

 great heat and drought during the spring have had a very injurious 

 effect on the development of the plants. As a consequence the prices 

 have advanced to about 34/- per lb., and a further rise in the course 

 of the next few months may be expected, although the consumers at 

 these high prices may possibly show great reserve. Fortunately we 

 have still at our disposal the bulk of our last year's purchases, so 

 that for the present we can be satisfied with a comparatively slight 

 advance in our quotations. In offers for delivery during next year, 

 the rise has of course to be taken into account. 



