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SECRETARY WHEELER: In order to comply with the 

 JVlassachusetts regulation of weights and measures, you have 

 got to put the quantity of the contents of that package on 

 it. If you are using a 14 quart peach basket it has got to be 

 stamped on it. 



MR. GEER : When we buy them they are stamped, 



SECRETARY WHEELER: If you are selling at retail 

 you have got to put the weight on, 



A MEMBER: I would like to ask .^Ir. Wheeler if an 

 apple that is absolutely green could go into the B grade. 



SECRETARY WHEELER: Yes. 



MR. H. A. WEEKS: I would like to ask :\Ir. Wheeler 

 if apples that come to storage and have depreciated while 

 they are there, when they come out for sale who is expected 

 to ask for a second grading? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : Why. the owner, tlie person 

 who has bought them can re-pack them, but he has got to 

 put on the barrel the fact that he has re-packed them. 



MR. WEEKS: What constitutes re-packing! 



SECRETARY WHEELER: Simply looking tliem over 

 rnd re-packing into barrels again. 



:\IR. WEEKS: If the barrels are full? 



SECRETARY WHEELER: Do you mean simply gone 

 ^lack a little? 



THE CHAIRMAN: Do you refer to color or quantity! 



MR. WEEKS : If they get storehouse scald, etc. Not 

 necessarily that the barrel has gone slack, but they have 

 deteriorated in regard to color; they may be perfectly 

 Kound; who is it up to to ask for re-inspection? 



SECRETARY WHEELER: It would be up to our De- 

 partment to re-inspect them. 



MR. WEEKS : Who is expected to ask for it ? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : The owner, whoever he is. 



MR. WEEKS: Is he obliged to ask for it? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : If you own them, yes. 



jMR. WEEKS: The commission man is obliged to ask 

 for it. 



