Repeated Request for Required Information About Control of Stock

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Repeated Request for Required Information About Control of Stock

(March 11, 2005)

Copied below is the text of a March 11, 2005 letter to the corporate secretary of Farmer Bros. Co., repeating a January 13, 2005 letter's request for information needed by investors regarding control of 39% of the company's voting stock held in family trusts for which the recently deceased Chairman had served as sole trustee.

As indicated in the letter, its addressee had indicated in a January 14, 2005 response to the first request that the information should be "forthcoming soon."

The letter is copied to the SEC Enforcement official responsible for reviewing matters raised in a January 8, 2004 request for investigation and a February 13, 2004 request to require information disclosures.

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LUTIN & COMPANY
575 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Telephone (212) 605-0335
Facsimile (212) 605-0325

March 11, 2005

By telecopier: 310/320-2436

John M. Anglin, Esquire

Secretary

Farmer Bros. Co.

20333 South Normandie Avenue

Torrance, California 90502

Dear Mr. Anglin:

In your January 14, 2005 response to my previous day’s letter encouraging your report of the change in control of Farmer Bros. stock, you had stated your belief that “the information will be forthcoming soon.”

Two months have passed and no information has been reported, other than the fact that the person who controlled a third of the company’s stock is deceased, and there has been no explanation for the silence.

I assume you appreciate the need for investors to know who controls Farmer Bros., as well as the need to comply with laws that require reporting it. Please let me know if there is any reason why the relevant information cannot be properly reported within a week.

Sincerely yours,

Gary Lutin

cc: Andrew Petillon, Esquire

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