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to affect New Hampshire growers and out of State growers 

 in shipping here for sale? One of the big growers of the 

 State is sitting right here beside me, ]\Ir. Hall, and I might 

 make just one other remark ; the speaker said he did not be- 

 lieve that there were any apples in storage in the markets 

 here that were not overfaced. Now, I want to make this 

 statement, that I believe that there are or were 2500 barrels 

 grown by the gentleman on my left, which were machine 

 graded and which were put into the Quincy cold storage 

 market last fall without being over-faced. 



SECRETARY WHEELER : I am glad to know, that, 

 I\]r. Wolf. I never happened to come across them. (Laugh- 

 ter). The question that Prof. Wolf asked was, "How the 

 out of State apple will be affected under this law?" It 

 will be simply this way, that we have no right whatever to 

 pass a law that affects the fruit from other States, but when 

 other States pack according to the Massachusetts standard 

 c'-.nd so brand their apples in this State, they will have to 

 come under the provisions of this Act. 



]\IR. JENKS : I w^ould like to ask I\Ir. Wheeler when 

 greenings will be judged or inspected. Take greenings up 

 in our country packed at harvest time, put in .storage and 

 put in so that the scab content is below the requirement, but 

 scab develops in the storage, also storage scald, so that when 

 those greenings are taken out of storage they are no where 

 near as good as when they went in ; when are those greenings 

 lo be inspected? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : At the request of the grow^ 

 er. If he wants them inspected before they go in we may 

 do it. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I'd suggest that he had better have 

 them inspected then. (Laughter). 



MR. O'BRIEN: I would like to ask Mr. Wheeler what 

 about enforcing that law on out of State shipments. If 

 they brand their apples according to this law and don't 

 come up to it, is there going to be any W)ay to prosecute? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : The only way we can do in 



