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any credit to superior size and color in its grading rules, and 

 that the methods of inspection were faulty, and lastly, that 

 the penalties for its violation were excessive. 



As the matter was brought up in Congress again this winter 

 it became necessary for us to give it further attention, and 

 to that end, Mr. C. E. Whisler of Medford and I went to 

 Washington early in March. We were joined on the way 

 by Judge Fremont Wood of Idaho, who worked in close har- 

 mony with us on every point. Representatives from the state 

 of Washington were also sent, but owing to some delay they 

 failed to arrive until after the question was settled. Mr. 

 Joseph Wilson, of Hood River, also joined us at Washington. 



The friends of the "Sulzer Bill" were at Washington in füll 

 force; the National Fruit Jobbers' Association, the Western 

 Fruit Jobbers' Association, the retail dealers organizations, and 

 präctically every fruit-growers' Organization in the apple grow- 

 ing states east of the Mississippi River was represented at the 

 Conference and the hearing before the Committee on Coinage, 

 Weights and Measures of the House. The friends of the bill 

 had recognized the necessity of compromising with the dele- 

 gates from the northwest, so a Conference was held at the 

 Raleigh Hotel the day before the hearing, March 6th, at v/hich 

 all the representatives were present, and it was agreed that 

 the present bill should omit all reference to the box or basket 

 package and be confined to the barrel alone; that all future 

 objection to the northwest Standard box as a Standard package 

 should be removed, and that the penalties should be made less 

 stringent. A new bill was then drafted along these lines, and 

 the Substitute bill was introduced the next morning by Repre- 

 sentative Sulzer of New York, and the entire delegation of 

 fruit-growers and commission men appeared before the com- 

 mittee in its behalf. It is believed that this bill will pass at 

 the present session and take affect July 1, 1912. This then 

 leaves the field clear for us to secure the adoption of our box 

 as a national Standard, and it should now be an easy matter. 

 Wherever the eastern growers are taking up the packing of 

 apples in boxes, they are adopting our box, and the Colorado 

 growers are beginning to realize that they must fall in line 

 also. I believe that in future the majority of the fancy apples 

 both east and west will be packed in our box, and that we 

 shall use the eastern barrel for much of our cheaper grades. 

 This was the opinion of most of those present at this meet- 

 ing. I feel that this meeting will be productive of much good 

 as many misunderstandings were cleared away and the feeling 

 firmly established that our interests were not antagonistic, but 

 mutual, and that we must work together in all things to estab- 



