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iiave power to make rules aud regulations goveraing apples 

 ]Hit in the cold storage. They will he inspected when they 

 go in, so that you could pack them as "A," because when 

 they came out they would have the "A" Grade color. 



MR. WILLARD : This particular lot that I referred to 

 was kept in cold storage. 



SECRETARY WHEELER : I think the question of color 

 would be just the same, they would probably color up. 



MR. WILLARD : I mean about inspection ; they would 

 not be inspected when taken to the shipping point. 



SECRETARY WPIEELER: No. There is one question 

 I mean to speak on. It has been raised several times, and 

 that is the question Avhere the law says "practically free 

 f.i'om, " and certain persons have tried to construe that as 

 meaning individual apples in the pack. AVhen the present 

 law speaks of diseases and fungous injury ; it says under 

 '"A" Grade "practically free fronv" and again under insect 

 injury and bruises "joractically free from." That has ref- 

 erence to the contents of the barrel, not the individual apples 

 in it. 



PRESIDENT SEARS : Aren't you giving just the wrong 

 impression ? Yon say the whole barrel has to be practically 

 free from blemish ; it means the whole barrel, every apple 

 in it could be slightly blemished and still be all right. 



SECRETARY AVIIEELER : I do not agree with you 

 there, in that case, every apple can be injured somewhat and 

 Lave a defect in it. 



MR. WOLF: I would like to ask how this might apply 

 to apples shipped into Massachusetts and for sale in Massa- 

 chusetts from neighboring states. Of course, we are going to 

 try to follow suit, Ave tried to get an apple grading and 

 packing bill similar to the ]Massachusetts law and the New 

 York law through the last Legislature in New Hampshire, 

 but the bill failed to pass. It is going to be tried agam, and 

 we believe that it will be an advantage to our State and the 

 apple interests of our State, just as it is going to be an ad- 

 A'antage to yours. Now, I am going to ask how this is going 



