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The next thing I want to mention is their inspection 

 ?.ork because we are just getting into the troubles of in- 

 spection and it seemed worth while to study the situation 

 fairly closely to see what we might learn from them. As 

 you might expect I found all sorts of variations in the type 

 of inspection particularly in the efficiency of it. In most 

 sections the inspection was very efficient. At Ilood River 

 ihey had the best methods of inspection that I found any- 

 wheij'e. I do not see any improvements that could be sug- 

 gested to it. 



The whole inspection work was under one head in- 

 spector. ]\Ir. Campbell. He is a man of perhaps 50 years, a 

 practical grower, and a man who knows the business from 

 one end to the other. lie spends his time going from one 

 I^art of the valley to another and doing the general direct- 

 ing. Then, he lias five "field inspectors," as they are 

 called, younger men, who travel around the valley on horse- 

 back, each man having a section of the valley under his 

 charge. These men are working the whole year and give 

 tlje farmers much valuable advice on pruning, spraying, 

 [•icking or whatever may be going on at that time. If they 

 get into any difficulty, if tliey find apples that are not cor- 

 rectly packed, they may condemn them in which case they 

 must be repacked or else reduced in grade. Or they may 

 send word to Campbell and have him stop at that particular 

 house and look over the situation. 



In addition to the field inspectors they have house in- 

 spectors at the larger houses who have charge of the inspec- 

 tion work in the particular building. The apples are 

 coming in all the time already packed and as a load is de- 

 livered the inspector stands by and says, "I will take that 

 box and that box and this box." -Out of a load of anywhere 

 from 50 to 90 boxes he may take five or six boxes. If on 

 examination he finds them not up to grade and decides that 

 •something needs to be done he ordinarily sends for ]Mr. 

 Campbell to come in and look them over. They either have 

 that load of apples repacked or else they reduce them in 



