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through legislatioD. I think it should be supplemented with 

 practical demonstration of why it is dollars in their pockets 

 to standardize and suitably pack fruit. 



To this end I would like to see more associated effort of 

 fruit growers. Since there are almost as many minds as to 

 Avhat a No. 1 apple is as there are fruit growers, it is? 

 essential to have a sta,ndaid and men to grade accordingly, 

 who are not the growers of the fruit. Where grading and 

 ])acking have been dene by those other than the growers, it 

 h.as paid handsomely. Witness its work in ]Maine, in Nova 

 Scotia and in the west. While it may not l)e practical for 

 average individual growers, it is for a grouj) of them, even 

 if they number no more than ten or a dozen. I am confident 

 that Massachusetts would have more co-operative fruit ef- 

 forts today if farmers knew how to get started. In my 

 editorial work I receive many requests each season from 

 farmers saying they wish to get startacl in associated effort, 

 but how Avill they do it, where can they get information and 

 do I know of any association to whom they can write? I 

 have been able to give some assistance and our county farm 

 leagues will help further. Still, we should go further and 

 have a definite review of the subject. 



I recommend that a standing committee of three be ap- 

 pointed at the same time as our other committee, whose duty 

 it will be to gather information about co-operative under- 

 taking.'s of fruit growers, be it growing, grading, packing, 

 mar]:et!ng or utilization of wastes; this committee to have 

 said informatioM .suitably tabulated for such use and such 

 di^tributicn ns the association may oeem advisnblo. 



■ I am fully av/are that this offering of rcioluticna in t^o 

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dozen yen Txt us go on ihi". principle of talking 



loss and doing more. Knther one false move to eventually 

 lead to the right action than to forever breed indecision. 



