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fe'ime responsible Department which will have the power of 

 establishing grades and standards in agricultural crops, 

 whatever they are. We want sometime to have a grade or 

 standard of potatoes, cucumbers and various other crops iu 

 this State. Those are simply examples. I believe eventual- 

 ly we can grade and standardize all of our agricultural 

 crops, and then and then only will we be able to distribute 

 large quantities of these crops. 



This proposed Department, will have this power to fix 

 the grades and standards only after hearings at which per- 

 son who are interested may appear. For example, if it 

 is decided to grade and standardize potatoes another year, 

 that fact will be published and every person who is inter- 

 ested in the standardization or grading of potatoes in three 

 or four or five grades, or whatever number it may be. will 

 be given an opportunity to be heard on that subject, before 

 Standardization of Potatoes becomes a regulation of the 

 Department. 



The Department of Markets will also have the power 

 to confer with cities and towns which are thinking of es- 

 tablishing market places, in order to assist them in choosing 

 the proper location for that market, and also assist them in 

 getting in touch with the farmers around the city, in order 

 that the farmers may come into that city and sell tlieir goods. 



Now, it may seem a simple proposition for a city to set 

 aside a market place and have it patronized, but when you 

 consider that no one knows anything about this beyond, 

 perhaps, a few persons interested and very few farmers 

 know anything about it, you will see that you must have 

 some Department or some organization or some individual 

 who is going to be able to send that information around 

 among the farmers and consumers. I am confident that this 

 thing will work out very satisfactorily, and aid us in the 

 most important problem the farmer is facing to-day. the 

 better distri])ution of his crops. 



Now, this apple packing law which was passed last 

 year was passed on the initiative of practically everybody 



