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it drawn so that any snide sizes of baslsets, boxes or packages of fruit 

 coming into the State can be confiscated. 



Mr. Swaim: Does the commission man, or the groceryman or the 

 customer buy bei*ries, when they buy them by the crate or box, under- 

 stand that they are getting a quart in a box? Or do they just buy a 

 crate or a box? 



Mr. : I happen to Ijnow that most of the berries marifeted in 



this market measure twenty-four quarts to the crate. The marketmen 

 sell them by the quart and save the boxes and crates. They make 

 from twenty-seven to thirty quarts of berries out of a crate. Don't 

 lay all the blame on the fruit growers; it is the middleman who is 

 usually at fault. 



Professor Troop: I move that it is the sense of this Society that the 

 State of Indiana should have a uniform fruit package law. 



The motion was seconded by Mr. Flick and carried. 



Professor Troop: I move that a Legislative Committee be appointed 

 and that this matter be refen-ed to it. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



President Stevens appointed as such Legislative Committee, Sylvester 

 Johnson, J. M. Zion and J. L. Keach. 



Mr. Zion: I move that this Society instruct the Legislative Com- 

 mittee to ask the coming Legislature for an appropriation of $3,000, 

 instead of $1,000. Seconded. 



Secretary Flick: I would suggest that we make no public exhibi- 

 tion of our needs, but that this question be left open for the Committee 

 to decide on. We all know we ought to have a larger appropriation than 

 $1,000. This year we ought to have more on account of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition. 



Mr. Johnson: We should have more than $1,000. The State Board 

 of Agi'iculture has an appropriation of $10,000, and we are doing at 

 least one-third of the work they are. AVe don't pay $1,000 for a horse 

 race, but we pay out money for fruits. 



The motion to instruct the Committee was carried. 



Mr. : It seems to me the action upon the President's report 



was not left in very good shape. I move that we reconsider the vote 

 on the report of the Committee on President's Address. 



