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lliis law ought to be understood. Now the ordinary peach 

 basket which is used in some markets as an apple container, 

 and which can be used to very good advantage would not 

 be considered a closed package if it has merely a slatted 

 head. If you have a tight head and that head is sealed in 

 some way so that the seal cannot be broken Avithout being 

 destroyed, it will be considered a closed jiackage. A carton 

 "\-ill only be considered a closed package Avhen it is sealed 

 with mucilage or when tape or string which ties it up has a 

 wax seal which cannot be broken without destroying the 

 seal. 



Those, in brief, are the packages which would come 

 under the definition of this law. the tight barrel with its 

 ordinary wooden head or tight burlap head, the bushel box 

 or the regular apple box (that is the box standardized by 

 tlie law, the Western box), and any basket or carton which 

 lias a cover through which the apples cannot be seen or 

 Tiirough which the apples cannot be gotten at without break- 

 ing and destroying the seal. I think that fairly well de- 

 fines the question of a closed package. 



Now, there have been a good many questions raised this 

 last year about the actual grading of the apples themselves, 

 Some persons have thought that the grading of the apples 

 V as accomplished, according to the law, if they were run 

 through one of these apple graders, so called, which you 

 jrrobably will have a chance to see in the other hall. The 

 grading machine is a splendid thing, and I think most of us 

 luive got to come to using them if Ave are going to comply 

 A-.-ith the laAv cheaply I knoAV that people Avho have been 

 trying to grade apples by hand have found it fairly ex- 

 pensive AA^hile I think it Avill pay any group of farmers that 

 have got apples enough to send to market, to buy a machine 

 and send them to the market graded. It must be remem- 

 bered that the machine should be looked at simply as a 

 sizing machine, and the actual grading of apples themselves 

 for color and defects, etc., Avill have to be done by the eye 

 as it has ahvays been done in the past. Our Avork this. 



