The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-15

no connection with the virginia-Car-
olina Company. The A. A. G. Co.
did not control the various markets Of
ingredients, Mr.. Taber said; he reiat-
ed how various markets were held.
Packing houses of the West control
slaughter house products; the German
Potash syndicate controls the potash
supply, and so on with other products.
He named packers who were not
members of the Southern Association.
Nearly Half the Business.
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
pany Sold he said, about 40 per cent
of the tonnage in the South. The
American Agricultural Chemical Co
pany sold very little In the South. The
members of the Association did not
sell nearly all of the tonnage in the
South. About $4,000 tons made by men
outside the Association were sold in
Alabama.
The Association sold less than three
quarters of the tonnage in the state,
Mr.. Taber said, and explained the diff
ference between bulk and tagged
goods. About 100000 tons of bulk was
sold to mixers.
Mr.. Taber was then excused and
Judge Cabot Lull, formerly Probate
Judge of Gilmore County, and now a
merchant of Wetumpka, was called.
analyses quoted by the Virginia-Caro-
lima and Register Companies were uni
form in 1906-19o7, q condition existent
also in 1905-1906. The Virginia Caro-
lima Company declined to give rebates.
he said. He understood Mr.. Hudson.
representative of the Virginia-Carclina
Company, to say the prices of all the
companies We're the same. He did not
hear Mr. Hudson speak of an agree
ment.
In 1905-1906 he had a conversation
| with Mr.. Hudson.
"IIe led me to believe that the COM
panies had agreed to fix prices and
am still of the opinion that they had.
l.. One reason for believing this
is, that | can't get fertilizers cheaper
from one company than from another"
said Judge Lull.
In 1905-1906 he got rebates. but he
| didn't know whether he would get
them this year. A representative of
the Jefferson Company offered a rebate,
and, like all other travelling men for
the fertilizer companies, was very anx-
ious to know II the Virginia Carolina
Company was making any cuts" the
Jefferson Company's representative said
other companies had the same prices
as his own.
He did not recall the name of the
| representative of the Register Company,
whom Mr.. Lacy, Judge Lull's business
partner, had referred to Monday as
"Mr. Burrows" This concluded the
testimony of Judge Lull.
II. ]. Britt of Wetumpka, in the gem
eral merchandise business, deals in fer
tiizers. During the past season, he
had bought about 700 tons of fertilIz-
ers, all except about two cars, he said,
from the Virginia Carolina Company.
Mr. Hudson. the Virginia-Carolina
Company man, had declined to give him
rebate. He had gotten no rebates
in the last two years. The Jefferson
Fertilizer Company had offered him a
rebate of so per cent a ton, IL he
bought 100 tons. w. M. Tucker had
represented the company. Mr.. Britt
had declined to buy 100 tons, he stated,
and, therefore, had gotten no rebate.
He exhibited the contract. Mr. Tucker
| guaranteed, Mr.. Britt said, that his
company's prices would be as cheap as
those of any company In the South.
Meeting at Savannah.
Mr. Tucker said that four or five
companies had met at Savannah and
6gured on the cost of raw materials
| and that Advance In raw materials was
such that the prices of the finished
products must be advanced, Mr.. Britt
said.