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Where the central packing house method is employed, the packing is, on the 

 average, much superior to other methods. When a grower packs his own fruit, 

 experience has shown that he is very liable to grade considerable quantities of ISTo. 2 

 fruit as No. 1. The practice should be: When in douht as to ike grade of an apple_. 

 place it in the grade below. With disinterested packers, this is possible, but, in the 

 other case, human nature usually prevails. 



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The following extract from an article by A. McN'eill, Chief Fruit Division, 

 Ottawa, published in the September issue of Better Fruit for 1910, will serve to 

 bear out the above remarks: — 



" In the enforcement of the Canadian Fruit Marks Act, it has been found 

 necessary to make an average of about fifty prosecutions a year. 



" There are now between fifty and sixty co-operative apple-selling associations 

 in the Dominion of Canada, and in no instance has a co-operative association been 

 fined. The interpretation of this fact is that the co-operative system removes very 

 largely all temptation to mark or pack fraudulently; but perhaps even a more 

 potent influence is in the closer supervision which can be given to the workman 

 by those in authority under the co-operative mode of work. Instead of sending 

 out gangs of men into isolated orchards, the co-operative associations are gathering 

 the fruit into packing houses and having the work done under the supervision of 

 competent and responsible men." 



