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therefore he was not responsible for the shortage. The judge found 

 him guilty and fined him $15.00 and costs; he should have had the 

 limit. 



The inspector, in another instance, made an inspection of a scale 

 and found the same to be 40 pounds light on each 1,000 pounds. 

 They were condemned. They were to weigh 250 head of fancy 

 beef cattle over these scales that day. The price being paid for these 

 cattle was 12 cents per pound and the cattle averaged 1,000 pounds 

 per head. The parties selling these cattle would have lost 10,000 

 pounds or 10 head of cattle at 12 cents per pound, amounting to 

 $1,200.00, a fair day's work for the buyer. 



The inspectors find new scales that are not properly installed. By 

 making the corrections the inspector protects the dealer as well as 

 the public. 



A unique bushel measure, made of galvanized tin, was confiscated 

 from an apple peddler by the inspector. The measure is guaranteed 

 to cheat each customer out of at least one-third {J/z) of a bushel of 

 apples every time it is used. The peddler had taken a heavy hammer 

 and banged great dents in the sides of the measure ; these dents took 

 up the space which should have been filled with apples when a bushel 

 of the fruit was sold. Housewives should purchase apples by the 

 pound and not by the measure. They should insist on getting forty- 

 eight (48) pounds for a bushel. Many of the measures used will 

 hold only about thirty (30) to forty (40) pounds of apples. 



The department continues to receive complaints regarding incor- 

 rect scales and requests for scale inspections. During the year end- 

 ing October 31, 1922, there were 171 requests taken care of. 



BREAD 



We still receive complaints about loaves of bread not being 

 branded with the net weight, also loaves being misbranded, in that 

 the loaf does not weigh as much as is stated on the wrapper. We 

 have continually tried to remedy this practice, with only partial suc- 

 cess. The bakers state that the frequent fluctuation in the price of 

 flour compels them to change the size of the loaf. Wrappers are 

 purchased in large quantities branded with a certain net weight. 

 Then if the size of the loaf is reduced the baker, in many cases, con- 

 tinues to use the same wrapper, leading the consumer to believe he 

 is receiving a larger amount of the bread than he is. 



We believe that the only remedy for this condition is a law regu- 

 lating the size of all loaves of bread. This is concurred in by the 

 United States Bureau of Standards and many of the other states. 



