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but there must be a coming together and working together that 

 in the end every barrel of apples packed shall be true to name, 

 true to grade, and reflect credit upon the man whose name is 

 plainly stamped upon the outside of the barrel or box. When 

 that day arrives, as come it must, the apples of Maine will stand 

 at the head of the line, for nowhere upon this broad earth can 

 fruit of better quality be produced than upon the hills of the 

 old Pine Tree State. 



DISCUSSION. 



Dr. Turner. ^Ir. President: — In listening to the paper which 

 we have just heard by Dr. Twitchell, it occurs to me that what 

 Dr. Twitchell has done has been a good deal of work for him, 

 and for him to undertake to carry it all through without the 

 support of the Pomological Society or somebody else, it becomes 

 a good deal of labor with very little thanks in it. If everybody 

 was honest, and if all the apples sold in the State of Maine had 

 been honestly packed, there would be no necessity for any legis- 

 lation. The trouble is that people are dishonest in packing 

 apples, if in nothing else. Probably a man who would not 

 steal — he wouldn't take anything that belonged to somebody 

 else, perhaps he wouldn't tell a lie about an ordinary business 

 matter, — will cheat on packing apples. It seems to be the 

 hardest thing there is to do, to pack a barrel of apples honestly. 

 When you sell to buyers and they send out their men to pack, 

 they have no interest in it. My opinion is that the best thing 

 for a man to do is to pack his own apples and then they are 

 packed his way. 



Now, then, if he is not going to be honest and pack his apples 

 "honestly and squarely, he ought to be made to suflFer in some 

 way, — not the man who buys them. If a man wants to stake 

 his reputation on a poor pack, then he ought to be able to take 

 the consequences when he gets his money. It Is the money part 



This paper that we have just heard has mentioned two or 

 three forms of a law to regulate this packing of apples. The 

 first one seemed to me to be the least complicated and perhaps 

 as reasonable as any. My own opinion is that it would be 

 better to have this law within our own State and not undertake 

 of this thing- that is sroinsf to make us all straight. A man will 



