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provided, that when peaches are packed in boxes, packages or containers, 

 having perpendicular sides the box, package or container shall also be 

 marked upon the ontside of the end thereof in plain figures with the 

 approximate number of peaches in the box, which shall be within four 

 peaches of the true count. 



Sec. 7. Grapes packed for table use shall be of uniform quality and 

 maturity and shall be well matured and show a sugar content of not less 

 than seventeen per cent Balling's scale, except Emperor, which shall 

 show not less than sixteen per cent Balling's scale. Each crate or other 

 package and containers therein shall bear in plain figures the minimum 

 weight of contents. Each crate or package except sub-containers shall 

 be stamped in plain letters, with the name of the variety. 



Sec. 8. Berries shall be packed in uniform packages of dry quart 

 containing an interior capacity of 67.2 cubic inches, or dry pint contain- 

 ing an interior capacity of 33.6 cubic inches and shall be reasonably 

 uniform in size, quality and maturity throughout the package or 

 container. 



Sec. 9. Cantaloupes shall be placed in standard crates 12 x 12 x 23| 

 inches containing forty-five cantaloupes of uniform size and maturity. 

 Pony crates 11 x 11 x 23^ inches containing forty-five cantaloupes of 

 uniform size and maturity. Jumbo crates 4^ x 13| x 23-J inches con- 

 taining twelve cantaloupes of uniform size and maturity or containing 

 fifteen cantaloupes of uniform size and maturity. 



Sec. 10. All boxes, crates, packages or containers of deciduous fruits 

 of the kinds specified in this act, except sub-containers, when packed 

 and offered for sale, or for transportation for sale, shall bear upon them 

 in plain sight and plain letters on the outside the name of the orchard, 

 if any, and the name and post-office address of the person, firm, com- 

 pany, corporation or organization, who shall have first packed or 

 authorized the packing of the same, also the name of the locality where 

 the fruit is grown. 



Sec. 11. In counties having a county horticultural commissioner it 

 shall be his duty (and the duty of his deputies) acting as inspectors, 

 which office is hereby created, to enforce the provisions of this act. 

 Additional inspectors shall be appointed by the county horticultural 

 commissioner, upon petition of like nature and at the same pay as 

 provided in section twelve of this act ; provided, that any county having 

 and enforcing a standard higher than the standard in this act shall be 

 exempt from the provisions of this act upon declaration to such effect 

 by the state horticultural commissioner. 



Sec. 12. In a city and county or in counties having no county horti- 

 cultural commissioner, or deput3'', it shall be the duty of tlie county 

 board of supervisors, upon petition filed with them to appoint inspectors. 

 Said petition shall be signed by at least twenty-five bona fide fruit 

 growers residing in that county, or city and county. The inspectors 

 shall receive for their services the sum of three and one-half dollars per 

 day to be paid monthly upon warrants drawn upon the county treasurer. 

 Upon the petition of twenty-five resident freeholders who are fruit 

 growers or shippers of fruit, the county horticultural commissioner, or 

 board of supervisors, where there is no county hortiL-ultural commission, 

 shall immediately remove said inspector for neglect of duty, malfeasance 



