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THE WINTER MEETING 



THE Executive Committee of our Asso- 

 ciation met last Wednesday morning- 

 and decided upon, Tuesday, Wednesday 

 and Thursday, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of Dec- 

 ember, as the best dates for the annual 

 meeting, to be held at Walkerton, Ont. 



Some of our readers seem confused over 

 the change of management, and do not 

 seem to understand that the business man- 

 agement is now in the hands of Mr. G. C, 

 Creelman, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, 

 to whom all business letters or money 

 orders should be addressed; and that the 

 editorship of the Journal still remains, as 

 usual, in the hands of Mr. Linus Woolver- 

 ton, Grimsby, Ont., to whoni all articles for 

 publication should be sent. 



THE USE OF X'S IN GRADING 



The use by so many apple shippers of X to 

 denote No. 3 apples, and' XX to denote No. 

 2, has made it necessary to discard these for 

 No. I apples as proposed on page 401. 



It is unfortunate that the Fruit Marks Act 

 should have countenanced the use of X's on 

 second and third grade fruit, which could as 

 well have been indicated by No. 2 and No. 

 3 ; but until this is rectified we find it neces- 

 sary to save confusion to fall in line and be- 

 gin our grades of No. i apples with XXX 

 instead of with X. 



Our grades in future for No. i apples will 

 stand as follows : 



XXX = apples 2^ inches in diameter. 



XX XX = •' 2i " 



XXX XX = " 2f " 



XXX XXX = '3 



XXX XXX X = " over 3 " 



