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DR. TWITCHELL : Yes. 



QUESTION: That is true with our Baldwins. They 

 will lose 25% of the usual size on account of a dry season, 



DR. TWITCHELL: Ordinarily the Baldwin in Massa- 

 chusetts is larger than the Baldwin from Maine, but we are 

 willing to take our chances, because we know that the law 

 has given us results that we could not get without it, and if 

 your apples are larger and can all be graded "Fancy," 

 while ours are A, or No. 1, we have got to take our place 

 there. Every man will go just where he belongs if we can 

 get that law, and when you get educated up to the uniform 

 enforcement of it. 



QUESTION: Is it their purpose to inspect more thor- 

 oughly, to have a larger number of inspectors? 



DR. TWITCHELL: They will have a larger number, 

 but they do not begin their work until about picking time. 



QUESTION : Then if you get a larger appropriation you 

 will have more inspectors. They are needed, are they not? 



DR. TWITCHELL : We need more inspectors. We 

 ought to have at least twelve inspectors. 



QUESTION: Will they cover the whole State? 



DR. TWITCHELL : Yes. Aroostook, which is the larg- 

 est county in the state, doesn't produce practically any ap- 

 ples, so that the fruit section is confined to six or seven 

 counties. 



QUESTION : If we had them here in Massachusetts we 

 would be calling for a little larger appropriation every year, 

 and an increased army of inspectors, the same as other de- 

 partments. 



DR. TWITCHELL : That is a matter for Massachusetts 

 to take care of for itself. 



MR. MANN: I understood the Doctor to say that one in- 

 spector guarantees 10,000 barrels of apples in a season. If 

 he only gets $2 and his expenses, I pity him. 



DR. TWITCHELL : He was the agent for the local fruit 

 growers' association; he had the packing of the fruit for 



