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was brought up tJie other day, which will make this a legal box 

 in Canada, lo x ii x 20 inches, almost a bushel. 



We have been able to buy this box at from 12 to 143/: 

 cents, with all the stencilling on it that we desired. It has been 

 found that one can get a box cheaper by adopting one with a 

 cleat along the ends, which also gives a handle to the box. The 

 reason they can be made cheaper is that small pieces of board 

 may be used for the ends of the box. 



I may say that the "Fruit Marks Act," which was established 

 about five years ago, making it illegal to face a barrel wrongly, 

 with large apples on top and small apples inside, further down, 

 that that Act is working very nicely indeed. There was some 

 little difficulty at first in getting packers to come up to the stand- 

 ard required, but we have a number of inspectors who go around 

 to the packing houses at different times and the dishonest man 

 is soon found out, and he is visited more often than the others, 

 and they have to allow their barrels to be examined. We find 

 our apples are getting a much better nam.e in great Britain and 

 Europe than ever before, and that this Act is working very 

 satisfactorily indeed. 



Q. Member: How about the coloring? 

 A. They allow 10% difference between the color of the 

 fruit in the face and the interior of the barrel ; the face can be 

 10% more colored. 



Q. You have official packers or inspectors? 



A. Yes sir, appointed by th,e Government. 



Q. Members : Tell us about their duties. 



A. The situation in Canada is slightly different from that 



in the United States. Nearly all your laws are enacted by each 



individual state. Some of our principal laws are enacted by 



the Federal Government covering the whole Dominion. An Act 



like this covers the whole Dominion,, from one coast to the other, 



all provinces are subject to this law. It makes it much more 



easy to carry out the provisions. The way it is managed is this : 



There is a Chief Inspector who has his head office in the 



departmental building at Ottawa. Under him are a number of 



inspectors, who are placed in the principal packing and shipping 



centers. They are at liberty to open any barrel or barrels of 



any shipment that is sent to any port, and if it is not up to the 



standard they can put a stamp on it, "Falsely Marked." At the 



first offence they caution the packer, and if it occurs again he 



is fined. You can easily understand that after an inspector has 



been working for a short time he gets to know the men who are 



in the habit of putting up fruit falsely, and is on the lookout 



for them, and they soon stop it. 



Q. Is the name 'required to be on the barrel ? 



