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From W B. Flick, Secretary Indiana State Horticultural 

 Society, Lawrence, Iiid. 



Your favor of the 27th ult. concerning the propriety of 

 calling a conference on the desirability of a national law regu- 

 lating the grading and packing of fruit for market received in 

 due time. 



In answer would say that Indiana needs badly a law regulat- 

 ing these matters. Much fruit is lost, the prices lowered and 

 the demand lessened by improper and dishonest grading and 

 packing. We do not have a state law even governing this and 

 if we did have undoubtedly a national law would serve us better. 

 This society will be willing to send representation to a conven- 

 tion called to consider the matter if notified in time. I would 

 suggest that Indianapolis, Indiana, would be the best place to 

 hold the meeting for obvious reasons. It is centrally located, 

 has unsurpassed railroad facilities, good hotels, good halls for 

 meeting, etc. I am sure halls, etc., could be procured without 

 cost. 



Please advise me as the work goes on and much oblige. 



From Wesley Greene, Jlce Secretary-Treasurer of American 

 Federation of Horticultural Societies, Des Moines, lozva. 



I have your letter of the 27th ult., and in reply will say that I 

 would favor a Fruit Marks Act similar to the one passed by the 

 Dominion of Canada. However, I am not quite sure that a 

 meeting called to consider that question alone, would be well 

 attended, but united action might be secured through corres- 

 pondence with the different organizations without incurring the 

 expense of a convention called for that purpose. 



From L. B. Bryant, Secretary of the Illinois State Horticul- 

 tural Society, Princeton, III. 



Your favor of the 5th came while I was absent from home. 

 There is no question but what better grades and better packing 

 of fruit is for the interest of all, whether for export or for home 

 use. Whether it is desirable or practicable to secure this by 

 law may be another matter. H'ow to enforce such a law if 

 passed, how to inspect without injuring the sale, whether to 

 confine the requirements to such apples as were intended to be 

 exported, and whether after all, the shippers are not the ones 

 vitally interested and whose self-interest will finally force them 



