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various Provincial Fruit Growers' Associations of the Dominion 

 have all placed their satisfaction ou record by resolutions heartily 

 endorsing the Inspection and Sale Act." 



It seems to us, however, that the Porter Bill fails to consider the 

 most important point of all, that of requiring that the packer place 

 his name and address upon every package. A regulation of that 

 kind would certainly of itself prevent a vast amount of fraudulent 

 packing. 



As Mr. Cox said, it is time for us to be getting busy. The 

 fraudulent packing of apples has already resulted in immeasurable 

 loss both at home and on the foreign markets. Canadian fruit, 

 backed up by the government guarantee, is beating us right along on 

 the Continental markets. We have already suffered severe loss on 

 this account so that prompt and vigorous action is essential. New 

 York growers are alive to the almost suicidal folly perpetrated there 

 last year and are actively back of any legislation which will correct 

 the abuse. It seems to me very important that the National Legis- 

 lature enacts suitable laws governing the interstate, territorial and 

 foreign shipment of apples making it unlawful to use short pack- 

 ages, or to ship closed packages of apples without marking each 

 one with name and address of the packer and a correct statement 

 of the contents. It is our belief that such a law should contain the 

 following features: 



1st. Establishment of capacity of a legal bushel for apples 

 expressed in terms of cubic inches. 



2nd. Establishment of capacity of a legal "box" as being 

 identical with that of a legal bushel with privilege to use a 

 smaller box by marking it with the fractional part of a legal 

 box which it contains, or with the number of fruits which it 

 contains. 



3rd. Establishment of capacity of a legal barrel in terms of 

 cubic inches, adopting that of the Standard New York apple 

 barrel as nearly as practicable. 



4th. Establishing a suitable number of grades of fruit one 

 of which must be used on every closed packages packed for 

 interstate, territorial or foreign shipment. 



5th, Requiring that every closed package containing apples 

 for interstate, territorial or foreign shipment bear the name and 

 address of packer and the name of variety contained therein in 

 addition to grade marks. And that all fancy and 1st grade 

 fruit also bear the name "American" when intended for ex- 

 port. 



6th. Providing suitable penalties for violation. 

 I would like to hear from Mr. Catchpole. 



MR. CATCHPOLE: I would like to have Prof. Wilson's views. 



PROF. WILSON: I shall have to plead ignorance. I know there 

 is such a thing as the Porter Bill, but I don's know enough about the 

 details of the subject to discuss it intelligently. 



MR. CATCHPOLE: Your secretary has covered this matter in a 

 very intelligent way and has gone into it in detail. A little history 

 of this: We, in the Empire State, have been feeling our way in this 

 question of regulation since the society was first organized. Last 

 winter during some of these meetings, we realized the great neces- 

 sity of doing something along this line, and we intend to take this 



