On  April  9,  1917,  H.  J.  McCuUough,  manager  of  the  wagon
division  of  the  Emerson-Brantingham  Co.,  thanked  the  complainant
for  bringing  the  matter  up.  After  stating  the  company's  inability
in  certain  cases  to  prevent  such  action  on  the  part  of  dealers,  par-


602  HIGH  PRICES  OF  FABM   IMPLBMENTS.
ticularly  those  to  whom  sales  had  previously  been  disccmtinued,  the
Avriter  stated  that  great  stress  was  laid  on  urging  dealers  by  direct
literature  and  through  salesmen  to  advance  their  prices  with  the
market.  The  matter  was  referred  to  the  firm's  branch  house  for
investigation,  and  after  having  received  a  report  another  letter  was
addressed  to  the  complainant,  which  indicated  that  the  price  quoted
by  the  dealer  and  reported  in  the  complaint  did  not  include  certain
extra  equipment  amounting  to  $9.50,  and  that  therefore  the  price
quoted  was  "  not  so  ridiculously  low  after  all."  In  closing  the  writer
stiited :

We  wish  to  thank  yon  for  cooveyiDg  the  facts  yo\i  have,  as  informatioo  of
this  kind  is  always  appreciated  and  thoroughly  investigated  by  us  as  we
are  just  as  anxious  as  can  be  to  have  our  dealers  market  our  wagons  at  a
profitable  selling  price  and  we  believe  the  fact  that  the  prices  at  which  these
parties  have  been  selUng  our  Newton  wagons  was  questioned,  will  have  some-
thing to  do  with  betterment  of  their  sales  price  hereafter.
