The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-04
CULLMAN BERRIES
 GO ID DETROIT il-Turnbull Writes of
 Radish Fight ANSWERS CHARGES
ANSWERS
In Letter to Cullman Editor the Truck Broker Puts Up His Defense-Is Popular in
 Cullman

Cullman. May s-(Special )--From the present indications the berry crop in Cullman county this season will even ex- ceed that of almost any previous year, both in quantity and in quality. As has been the custom heretofore, the bulk of the Cullman berry crop will go to De- troit, Mich, where 1t will be distributed by commission men.
 For the past several seasons the berries grown in Cullman county have been very successfully handled by the wel-known firm of Veil, Turnbull & Co.,, of De- troit, who have, according to the state ments of several of the most prominent growers, given entire satisfaction both to the Cullman associations and to the growers in the disposition of the berries at the very best of prices. Well, Turn bull & Co.,, have for the past several seasons handled the crop of berries here and radishes at Greenville, Ala, with but little or no opposition, but Detroit is represented by two commission firms this season, Well, Turnbull & Co.,, and Purse & Co.,, which fact has brought about considerable competition between the two firms. However In letter reply ing to an inquiry concerning the articles in the daily papers made by Joseph R. Rosson, editor of the Cullman Democrat, and sent to the firm of Well, Turnbull & Co.,. brings forth the following hot reply from this firm:
 MT. J. R. Rosson, Editor Cullman Dem ocrnt.
 Dear Sir; We are in receipt of your recent letter in regard to the articles which have appeared in one or two of the Alabama papers and referring to our dealing with the Greenville Truck Crow CTS association. Now, we want to say that we have always, as far as possible. avoided any newspaper controversy, for the reason, as you perhaps realize, that very often the one indulging in it, do themselves very little good, but the arti- cles which you refer to had made such outspoken statements that we felt bound to say something in our own behalf, and we expect within a few days that at least some of these papers, if not all of them, will have reconsidered this mat ter, and, perhaps. given us some repara- ton for the injustice done us, so much for the action we have taken In reply
 
 say emphatically that great many of them are absolutely without any truth whatever, and most of them are to say the least, misleading. Understand us, that we are not giving these papers the entire blame for the articles written, for we believe they took thm in good faith. We feel certain of this, for the reason that at least two papers, one of Mont gomery, the other a Birmingham paper bol atn articles. word for word, except that one of them had trimmed the article down little. Whoever wrote these articles made some very strong statements, few of which were:
 T. That we had bunkoed the Greenvile Truck Growers association out or three cars of radshes.
 70 That our net returns on some cars were so low that we called on the grow CTS for a part of the freight money.
 '3 That we wired the net returns to the association at one price and then sent them less money in our returns.
 .'To the first statement will say that we have not bunkoed the Greenville growers out of one barrel of radishes, let alone three cars, and that every barrel we have received this year or any other year has been accounted for, and that, fur ther, our average net returns Tor all the years we have been handling Greenville radishes have been higher than any other house they have shipped to. This state ment can be verified by the records of the Greenvile Truck Growers association, or by personal inquiry among the growers themselves.
 Replying to statement No. will say that this is a lie manufactured out of the whole cloth.
 ''In reply to No 3 will say that this is lie manufactured out of whole cloth and if your paper can get anyone to mention any particular car in which our remttances did not agree with our wire we will be glad to prove to you that they are in error.
 we want to say further that if any thing we have said in the foregoing statements can be shown as incorrect, we have $500 which we will donate to any charity in Culman county which you may name.
 we hope that we have answered your letter to your satisfaction and that our house has not gone down In your es- teem and if there is any further infor- nation we can give you. we would be glad to do so. Yours truly.
 .'WEIL, TURNBULLt & CO.,,
 HOWELL H. TURNBULL.