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.•illowiiig a tolerance of la%, that is, you can over-face up 

 to 15%. 



There has been another question brought up. Inas- 

 much as two and one-half inch Baldwins look pretty small 

 in the barrel, a question has been asked whether or not you 

 can put a quarter size over on the face and still mark your 

 barrel two and one-quarter. We have been attempting to 

 get away from a lot of these old tricks whereby apples have 

 been overfaced .in the past. Nobody buys apples in our 

 luarket without knowing that they are overfaced, and w^e 

 Avant to get away from that and make this law^ w^ork out so 

 that the face of the barrel will really represent the contents 

 if it takes ten years to do it. So I think we will cut out, 

 even this year, any attempt on the part of persons to over- 

 face, even in that question of size. 



I realize that 'great difficulty will be encountered in any 

 efforts to carry out this law on the question of color. There 

 ai'e certain years when color Avill be higher than other years, 

 and for that reason I think we ought to have this law elas- 

 tic enough so that it will give us a chance to make regula- 

 tions or rules concerning different years. For example, if 

 in one year we found the color was low, we could have a rule 

 that year that the color on apples should be 15% lower than 

 in a high color year, or something of that sort. This varia- 

 tion in color according to the season is a fact which we must 

 rnd will take notice of in enforcing the law. 



When we come to the question of facing apples, of course, 

 ^\e have defined in the Fancy Grade the limit of size, and 

 those of you who last fall got tlie circulars, of which we 

 l)rinted something like over 30,000 and sent them over the 

 '•tate, got the rules and regulations relative to the minimum 

 f-izes Avliich can be allowed in Fancy Grades. It was pro- 

 vided in the law. that the Secretary of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, after hearing, should have the power to fix the 

 minimum sizes of apples which would go into the Fancy 

 Grade, and Ave haA'c put these in four groups. 



The first group Avith a diameter of two one-half inches 



