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Coast Potato Association, ami wlio formerly was an expert with the 

 United States Department of Aijrienltnre. Details as to the cost of 

 inspection can be secured by writing to the State Commission of Horti- 

 culture, Sacramento. The first inspection must be made at bloominf,' 

 time in order to determine whether the lields are free from mixture of 

 varieties. So in many cases an immediate request for the inspector will 

 be necessary. — E. J. V. 



Forty-ninth State Fruit Growers' Convention. — The next State 

 Fruit Growers' Convention—the forty-ninth — will be held at Napa, 

 California, some time in November, the exact date to be announced 

 later. Arrangements are being made for an industrial exhibit of farm 

 Iractoi-s and farm machinery. Every fruit grower in the state should 

 be making arrangements to attend this convention. It will be without 

 doubt the best ever held in the state. Suggestions as to subjects to be 

 discussed at the convention will be heartily welcomed by us, and should 

 be in our hands before the first of October. The program will be pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin in some later issue. 



The Napa Valley is one of the most beautiful fruit growing districts, 

 and a tour of this valley coupled with the convention will make the trip 

 doubly profitable. — E. J. V. 



Apple Standardization. — We are again printing herein the act 

 relating to the standardization of apples. The Watsonville Apple 

 Distributors are again contemplating packing apples under this act, 

 as last year they had such remarkable success from so doing. The 

 growers netted approximately ten cents a box over their competitors 

 who did not pack under this law. Approximately 600,000 boxes were 

 inspected by the inspectors provided by the Commission of Horti- 

 culture, and stamped with the state seal. — E. J. V. 



Assembly Bill No. 243. 



CHAPTER 712. 



An act to estaUish a standard for the pacUng and marketing of apples, 

 fixing penalties for the violation of its provisioius, and providing for 

 its enforcement and malting an appropriation to carry into effect 

 the provisions hereof. 



[Approved June 10, 1915.] 



The people of the State of Ccdifornia do enact as follows: 



Section 1. This act shall be known, and for any and all purposes 

 may be referred to, as "The standard apple act of 1015." 



Sec. 2. The pro^^sions of this act shall be applicable to all apples 

 packed, shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for sale or sold in the 

 State of California, in any container upon which or the label of which 

 the word ''standard" is used as the brand or label or any part thereof, 

 or as qualifying the pack, container, or the contents of the container, 

 and to such container. 



Sec. 3. No apples shall be packed, shipped, delivered for shipment, 

 offered for sale or sold, in the State of California, in any container 

 upon which or the label of which the word "standard' is used as the 



