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others. That is the way it worked and the way we all lost 

 our money. 



PROF. SEARS: You have spoken about the way the 

 Maine law works and I want to speak of the Canadian Fruit 

 Marks Act in Nova Scotia. I want to say in the beginning 

 that I am very heartily in favor of this Commonwealth having 

 some sort of law, and the Doctor is certainly correct in saying 

 that it worked in Canada, where they have had it going for 

 ten or twelve years. Three or four years ago. after the law 

 had been working for six or eight years, they had had a 

 chance to find out hoM" it worked, and I wrote a nuni!)er of 

 different men in Nova Scotia Avith Avhom I was acquainted, 

 to get the views of the commissioners, the authorities and 

 the inspectors who were handling the law and who would 

 knoAv how the laAV was working, and Avho Avere near the 

 large dealers; and also to some of the representative growers 

 and one or two other men, perhaps, who didn't class in with 

 any of those, and I asked them how the law was working, 

 what they thought it had done for the apple industry in 

 Nova Scotia and whether they had any criticism, and to my 

 surprise all those I Avrote to — I probably had fifteen or twen- 

 ty letters in all — were very enthusiastic and very emphatical- 

 ly in favor of it and saying that the law had worked won- 

 ders for the apple industry of Canada. 



And it was especially good for apples in Nova Scotia. 

 What surprised me most of anything was that the dealers 

 and buyers should endorse it so emphatically. The farmers 

 said it was fine for preventing the dealers packing dishonest- 

 ly, and the dealers said it was fine because it prevented the 

 farmers packing dishonestly as they used to, and the author- 

 ities under whose direction it was carried out were all 

 emphatically in favor, saying that it had worked wonders in 

 Nova Scotia and Canada generally. I have at home a chart 

 sent out by one of the large apple concerns of Liverpool, 

 showing the average prices realized on Baldwins in the last 

 five years, and the Baldwins are classified as Canadian, 

 Maine, New York and Boston. You are familiar with the type 



