. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 88 The Florists' Review April 20. 1922 something like $300,000 on overdrafts, using the company's paper as security. Then I borrowed some money on per- sonal notes and other ; He admitted that the company in 1921, on a business of $500,000, made ten per cent i)rofit. According to the state's attorney, he used the company to float a $500,000 stock issue. For this purpose, he is reported to have said he deliberately falsified his bank state- ment so as to qualify under the blue sky laws. Mr. Peacock stated he gave as secur- ity, besides
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 88 The Florists' Review April 20. 1922 something like $300,000 on overdrafts, using the company's paper as security. Then I borrowed some money on per- sonal notes and other ; He admitted that the company in 1921, on a business of $500,000, made ten per cent i)rofit. According to the state's attorney, he used the company to float a $500,000 stock issue. For this purpose, he is reported to have said he deliberately falsified his bank state- ment so as to qualify under the blue sky laws. Mr. Peacock stated he gave as secur- ity, besides stock in his seed company, stock in an Oshkosh, Wis., company and in the Automatic Eat Trap Co. After the inquiry Tuesday evening, Mr. Peacock was allowed to return home on promise to return in the morning. Five other persons were ordered to ap- pear befpre the state's attorney April 19. They were: Mrs. Peacock, Albert Sporleder, Albert Gascon, secretary of the Everette R. Peacock Co.; A. Setter- berg, a former officer of the Peacock Co. and former director of the Milwau- kee-Irving bank, and C. J. Nissen, for- merly auditor of the Peacock Co. In The Review of March 30 report was given of the appointment of a re- ceiver for the affairs of the Everette R. Peacock Co., in which eleven banks were interested to the extent of fifty- flve per cent of the liabilities of $200,000. IMPORTS OF GRASS SEED. There are some striking differences in importations of grass seeds during the nine months ended March 31, 1922, and the three-quarters of the govern- ment's fiscal year which ended a year before. These are shown in the figures published by the Department of Agri- culture, which are as follows: July 1, 1921- Mar. 31, 1922 Kind of seed. Pounds Alfalfa 3, Canada blue ernss 850,600 Awnleis brome gniss 13,000 Alslke clover 6,2.'18,000 Crimson clover ,100 Red clover 6,872,800 White clover 1,435,300 Alslke clover und timothy mixtures Alslke clover and Canada blue grass mixtures Al
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