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Letter read by Dr. Tzmtchell. 



Ottawa, Canada, October i, 1908. 

 Mr. G. M. Twitchell, Monmouth, Me., U. S.: 



Dear Sir : — I am in receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo. 



1 am enclosing herewith Bulletin 11 containing the amendments 

 made last year to the Inspection and Sale Act, Part IX (the 

 Fruit Marks Act). The features covered by these amendments 

 are, first, the definition of grade No. 2 is changed by adding 

 the phrase "includes no culls;'' and culls are defined as you 

 will note in the inserted page. The second change is imposing 

 a fixed sum not less than $10 for the first offense instead of 

 the old method of so much per package. It was found, in prac- 

 tice, that it was difficult to discover a violation covering a large 

 number of barrels ; and, as a consequence, after a man was 

 fined once and his reputation was of no particular consequence, 

 the money consideration would not weigh much with him. 



We have our definitions now not exactly, perhaps, in the form 

 in which I would like them, but nearly so. We have a good 

 practical definition of a No. i apple, which is substantially a 

 perfect apple with a 10% allowance for rapid work. The No. 



2 as now defined is a good merchantable apple. Every apple 

 in this grade may, of course, be defective but not to the extent 

 that it becomes objectionable for market purposes with the great 

 apple consuming class. 



I am not sure that it would be wise at the beginning to draw 

 the lines quite so close as we are now drawing them in Canada. 

 We have found that the Act is working for the benefit of all 

 classes, except the unscrupulous apple operator. "He" is so few 

 in number and so altogether unworthy of respect that his atti- 

 tude towards the thing need not be considered. It is noticeable 

 that, while we have a great deal of grumbling among certain 

 classes of operators and even certain fruit growers, no one has 

 yet been found who dares to advocate the repeal of the Inspec- 

 tion and Sale Act (the Fruit Marks Act) upon a public plat- 

 form or in the public press. What little criticism there has 

 been in the public press is directed solely against the adminis- 

 tration of the Act, and these criticisms are really never seriously 

 considered by the public. 



