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MR. ROBES: Is it specified in the weights and meas 

 ures acts? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : Yes. 



MR. MANN : In selling at retail by parcels post, must 

 you put on the number of the apples? 



SECRETARY WHEELER : You can put on the number 

 of fruit in place of the weight, it is either weight or numeri- 

 cal count. 



MR. MANN: Would that apply to a standard box of 

 apples? 



SECRETARY WHEELER: To a standard box? Yon 

 put on the numerical count and that's all right. 



A MEMBER: On the barrel when it is ready for ship- 

 ment the head can be covered by the stencil, as required by 

 Ip.w ? 



SECRETARY WHEELER: The stencil would not cover 

 the entire head. This happens to cover most of the head, 

 but at the bottom there is plenty of room for address. The 

 only thing the law requires is that tlie letters shall not be 

 less than one-half inch letters; the necessary marks on that 

 barrel with a half inch letter will only cover a small portion 

 of the head. 



THE CHAIRMAN : I think the time is about up for 

 discussion. We would like to go back to one point this 

 morning. Mr. Aiken made a statement that I do not think 

 any of us understood, and I would like to have IMr. Aiken 

 explain why it costs more to put up straAvberries than rasp- 

 berries. 



MR. AIKEN : Mr. Brown wrote me and asked me if I 

 could tell why it cost more to preserve strawberries at 12c 

 a quart than it did raspberries at 20c. a quart. I brought 

 these along as an illustration. There is a can of raspberries 

 and there is a can of strawberries. The cans were filled, 

 with fresh fruit and then syrnp put on and they were 

 rooked for I don't know how long I didn't put them up; 

 when they were done cooking the can of raspberries w«s al- 

 most full, as vou can see. and the can of strawberries, the 



