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act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 for the 

 first offence and by a fine not exceeding $200 for each subse- 

 quent offence." 



QUESTION: May I ask if there were many of those? 

 Were they pushed? 



DR. TWITCHELL : I think one or two cases were 

 pushed to a finish in our court. I do laiow that the Com- 

 missioner has a report and counsel has instructions. There 

 was one case where the apples had been packed in barrels 

 and had not been properly racked and filled too full and 

 pressure put on, and it had split the apples, and the experi- 

 ence of the inspector with the man who did the work was 

 Kuch that he reported it back to the State. 



QUESTION: Is it your experience that w^hen pressure 

 is put on, the apples will be mashed a little bit if they are 

 put up as they should be? 



DE. TWITCHELL : They should not be smashed. They 

 will be pressed, but the skin should not be broken. It seems 

 to me that if you put on pressure enough to break the skin 

 of an apple you are going to get a slack barrel, and I have 

 found in going through the State where the inspector was 

 assisting in packing and racking barrels, you can get a good, 

 solid pack without breaking the skins. 



PRES. BREED: How about the unclassified fruit? 



DR. TWITCHELL : That would be disposed of in anoth- 

 er class, "Unclassified." There are some people in Maine 

 who evidently have not confidence enough in themselves to 

 think they could put up a barrel of No. 1 or No. 2 apples, 

 and so they put their apples into the barrel as they come, 

 and call them unclassified and send them along to get what 

 they can for them, not realizing how much they lose by not 

 properly grading. We have got to seek the best way to 

 wipe out that section in the law so that the grade of the ap- 

 ples can be clearly defined and allow for defects that would 

 not be allowed in a better grade. 



MR. WARE : What do you consider the cost of an aver- 

 age barrel of apples, to produce ? 



