48 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Recommexdatioxs for Legislation. 



A meeting was called in September by the master of the 

 State Grange to arrange for organization and co-operation in 

 legislation and possibly in other matters of interest to farmers. 

 This meeting, held at Worcester in October, resulted in several 

 recommendations for new legislation or amendments to exist- 

 ing laws, and the Department was requested to recommend 

 some of these to the General Court of 192L The Department 

 therefore submits these recommendations and some other bills 

 which its experience during the past year indicates to be nec- 

 essary, as follows : — 



1. An amendment to the trespass laws in the form of an 

 additional section which will provide for the arrest without 

 warrant of trespassers upon farm, garden, orchard and other 

 agricultural land in fruiting season and for a penalty for such 

 trespassing. This bill is presented in accordance with the 

 vote of the Worcester conference and also because the De- 

 partment believes such legislation to be necessary. 



2. A bill to provide for the marking of cans used as whole- 

 sale containers of milk to show their capacity. Evidently 

 these distinguishing marks cannot be placed upon cans im- 

 mediately, so that the bill provides that all new cans shall be 

 marked from the first day of September, 1921, and that no 

 unmarked cans shall be used as wholesale containers of milk 

 after the thirty-first day of December, 1923. 



3. Certain amendments to the apple-grading law seem to be 

 necessary because the law does not now give the Department 

 authority to inspect apples in the course of shipment from one 

 point to another. Another addition to the act is made neces- 

 sary because the act now provides no penalty upon a person 

 who interferes with the inspectors of the Department in the 

 performance of their duties. 



4. The necessity of some arrangement to improve the crop- 

 reporting service in this State has become more and more 

 evident throughout the year. A bill is therefore submitted 

 authorizing this Department to co-operate with the proper 

 bureaus of the LTnited States Department of Agriculture and 

 to expend such sums as may be appropriated for this purpose. 

 Crop estimates are proving more and more desirable because 



