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many of them, for No. 2; but they are going way above two 

 and one-half, many of them, in a barrel of Northern Spies such 

 as are shown here. In a No. 2 barrel they will be restricted 

 down to about two inches. You may put larger ones in, but 

 what would be the use when they can go into the No. i ? Now 

 then, that No. 2 barrel and a No. i don't amount to much this 

 year — I should prefer this year in putting up my stock to have 

 all No. 2 — I should prefer in sending my apples to Boston this 

 winter, and I have got seventeen hundred barrels, not to send 

 one No. i barrel if I could have a law that would protect me on 

 No. 2. But what does the market think of No. 2s? Why, 

 they think a No. 2 is no good at all — they don't know whether 

 they are getting an apple or slops. It is a jockey package, that 

 is the way they consider it on the market. They don't care 

 what you send them as an apple grower if you will only let 

 them know just what is in that barrel. If it is slush in the 

 middle or isn't very good, he has got a place to trade that off, 

 there are lots of people that look for that kind of goods. Now 

 if we had an act saying that No. is shall be such and such. No. 

 2s shall be such and such, to accommodate the condition of our 

 apples today, I would prefer all my apples should be put up as 

 No. 2s — I could face them so nicely and they would look so 

 nicely, no one would consider them under the head of No. 2. 

 When he speaks about the man's name being placed on the 

 apples, — the man's name has got to be placed under the Marks 

 Act in Canada, and the grader, or both — or the owner or both — 

 so that they can trace them right back. It don't matter 

 whether they find that apple in Montreal or across the water 

 or somewhere else, they can trace it right back. Your apples 

 have got to be marked just the same by this Marks Act as the 

 gentleman asked you to have them marked. But what do we 

 care about our name specially, if we have this grade mark? 

 That makes all clear. We have got as good apples in Mame as 

 in Vermont, and just as good in Vermont as in Maine. The 

 question today is the packing, the grading, the marking and the 

 shipping. We are working today to this combination, this 

 gathering together of representatives from other societies and 

 we know it is going to help our societies to be heard and go back 

 and report what we see here and learn here, and we hope it will 

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