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marked ; it requires every closed package of apples packed 

 or repacked within the State to be marked in a conspicuous 

 place with certain information as to its contents ; it specifics 

 tliat closed packages containing apples packed or repacked 

 without the State to be sold within the State as of a Massa- 

 chusetts standard grade shall not be falsely marked ; it 

 authorizes the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 

 to make and publish rules and regulations for carrying out 

 the provisions of the act ; it empowers the said secretary and 

 deputies to enter any building or other place where apples 

 are packed, stored, sold or offered or exposed for sale and to 

 open any closed package, and, upon tendering the market 

 })rice to take samples therefrom." There is also a penalty 

 attached to it. 



I think the first important thing is to define or get 

 familiar with what a closed package is. We are near our 

 markets in this State and are used to sending our apples 

 largely in open packages, that is, the open Boston bushel 

 box, open basket or some package which Avould not come 

 under this law. and, except for export trade or large barrel 

 trade, w,here apples are packed in a large way, there Avill 

 not be a great many peoi)le -affected by the law. The barrel, 

 f,s we construe it, is only a closed package Avhen it has both 

 the heads in tight, or when it is covered with a tight burlap 

 cover through which the apples cannot be seen. The cov- 

 ering of a barrel wnth a net would not be considered as a 

 closed package, but when you get a tight cover like a closed 

 burlap we consider that as a closed package. 



Our ordinary Boston box, would only be considered a 

 closed -package when it had a tight head in it, so that the 

 contents could not be seen. This box can be used as an open 

 package when it has a paper cover and three slats across the 

 lop. This year we are not going to require that this slatted 

 I'ox shall be marked in accordance with the law; eventually 

 ir the farmers liegin to use this paper heading and put on 

 more slats, we may have to define it as a closed package. 



Then the question of a 1)asket which can be used under 



