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ing eggs by weight. You buy them by the dozen and there is 

 no difference made in the price between large sized eggs and 

 small ones. I have weighed eggs to find what the actual money 

 difference was between one hundred large eggs and one hundred 

 small ones, and the actual difference between large ones and 

 small ones was sixty-five cents when I came to weigh them. 

 This is a damage to the consumer. He does not want to pay 

 two dollars for a dollar and fifty cents worth of eggs ; he wants 

 two dollars worth. 



President Elliot: — I will say in regard to my being on the com- 

 mittee, I think the proper way for our society to do this is to pass 

 it over to our committee on legislation, and that is the proper 

 place for it to goj and unless there is an objection made we 

 will consider it referred to our committee on legislation. 



I do not think there is any necessity for further discussing 

 this question; I think we are all of one mind that something 

 ought to be done, and that pretty soon; the longer it is let run 

 the worse it is getting. 



Aid. Gray: — I would like to ask when your committee on leg- 

 islation makes its report. Our legislative committee meets to- 

 night, and meets again some time during the week. 



President Elliot: — I am chairman of that committee, but I 

 cannot meet with it tonight. The other members are Mr. 

 Grimes and Mr. Harris. 



J. S. Harris: I do not know whether we have any time to 

 work on this before the society, but there are certain points in 

 legislation that ought to go further back than the state of Min- 

 nesota or the city of Minneapolis. Now we in the northwest feed 

 on the fruits of the south a long time before our fruit comes in to 

 the market. The commission men of Chicago send us up large 

 quantities of berries in small packages, and the people buy 

 them and without question and eat them long before our fruit 

 comes in, but when ours does come in they expect us to give 

 them full measure, thirty-two quarts to the bushel and make 

 the bushel run over. It seems to me that the government of 

 the United States ought to make a standard of weights and 

 measures, so that as long as Chicago is the hub of the universe 

 they cannot impose on us at all kinds of odds. 



M. Pearce: Now so far as the regulation of fruit packages is 

 concerned, we have established what is called the short 

 weight; it is short measure, it is simply that the packages 

 are filled up without regard to actual measurement, but 



