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but I want to call to your attention that a committee is at 

 work, composed of representatives of all those interested in 

 apple growing, for a uniform law for New England, and the 

 part I shall take will only affect IMassachusetts. There is to 

 be a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at two 

 o'clock, and I hope as many as are interested will come be- 

 fore the meeting and express their approval or disapproval 

 of any part of the law they may see fit to criticize. Last 

 rail, when one of the stores in Boston wanted to get one 

 thousand barrels of apples to give away with their pur- 

 chases, they had to go to Maine to get them, because they 

 couldn't find enough graded apples in Massachussetts. That 

 :s just one instance which shows the necessity of that law. 

 (]Mr. Wheeler reads and explains the proposed law). 



REVISED DEAFT of the UNIFORM LAW for the GRAD- 

 ING of APPLES in NEW ENGLAND 



Comment by Committee 



The public hearing on Tuesday, January 19th, was at- 

 tended by one hundred and twenty-five people, representing 

 growers, dealers and consumers from the six New England 

 States. 



The proposed bill in general was approved — with some 

 minor changes. ]\Iany letters have been received from grow- 

 ers all over New England endorsing the proposed law with 

 some changes in phraseology. 



The laM^ answers for three main purposes : 



1. That each closed package of apples should be 

 marked to show the grade, the variety, the minimum size of 

 the apples in the package, the name of the grower or packer, 

 and name of state where grown. 



2. That the contents of the closed package come up to 

 the above markings within a reasonable tolerance. 



3. That the system of marking in the several apple 

 producing states should be uniform. 



It is not the intention of those advocating the law that it 



