color AvluMi ve wrote that pamphU't was that color that 

 covered half the apple would be considered normal. 



MR. DAVENPORT: Then under that, if you consider 

 that half the apple must be colored to be considered normal, 

 it wlould only be necessary for the apple to have a little 

 color, one-fourth color, to go into the Fancy Grade. 



SECRti/sRY WHEELER: I agree with you that the 

 wording is wrong; we are going to change that this year. 



MR. i'OWELL : I would like to ask Mr. Wheeler what 

 h{ is going to do about the color in regard to a Greening, 

 Yellow Transparent or Golden Russet? 



SECRETARY AVHEELER: We shall consider in grad- 

 ing such apples that color shall not be considered at all. 

 We want a green greening; in some places it is all green and 

 in others it has a pretty pink, but in judging fruit in our 

 fehows we have to eliminate that question of color, and w^e 

 shall in the packing of the apples do the same thing. 



MR. BARBER: We all like to see a high colored Bald- 

 win. Can Mr. Wheeler tell us why it is that sod gromici 

 M'ill produce a better color than cultivated land? 



SECRETARY WHEELER: I am answering questions 

 on the apple grading law, and I'd rather somebody else 

 Mould answer on cultivation. 



THE CHAIR^MAN: The Chairman is growing apples un- 

 der high cultivation, no sod, and is not getting the color we 

 are getting in sod, and I think in the law it wlould be well to 

 consider the man that is growing apples and using a good 

 deal of stable manure and not getting much color, but get- 

 ting a large apple and a very satisfactory one. 



MR. WILLARD : I would like to inquire what- disposi- 

 tion is going to be made of the man that has a good keeping 

 strain of Baldwins that color while they are in storage. I 

 was thinking of one lot of fruit put up so green that it could 

 hardly be marked A Grade, and yet when they were opened 

 later they acquired color so they could go in the A Grade. 



SECRETARY WHEELER: We have got another 

 change in the laAv that we are asking for so that we shall 



