For Belmont and DupedBySteve, a story on spoiled milk
This is an old story of a milk man who sold milk from his own cows. In the morning he would get up early and milk his cows and then go from home to home to sell his milk. He didn't make a lot of money, but enough to keep the family going. One day the local grocer started selling bottled milk. He had a hard time selling, because people were used to the fresh milk and liked the milk man. Then suddenly, a rumor appeared; some one had seen the milkman urinate in the milk can. Within a week he could no longer sell any milk, was unable to take care of his family and forced to sell his cows. The bad thing was though, that these were only rumors, nobody had actually seen him urinate into the milk, but everybody believed it. This is the power of malicious rumormongers. Talking about things one hasn't seen, but since nobody else has seen the contrary either, people just don't take the risk of buying any more milk and the milk man is out of a job.
Look Belmont and DupedBySteve, if you have any milk that you think is spoiled, we might be willing to buy it. In other words, sell your trees, offer them for sale. I do not appreciate you telling stories here anonymously, that we are unable to verify. To continue with the milk man analogy, if he goes out of business, there is little likelihood I will get any of the money I invested in the farm back, so you are also hurting me. If you have a problem with Steve, that is between you and Steve, but I don't see why you want to hurt me, or the other tree owners on this board. It escapes me entirely.
AI
