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grade, that is if they are marked "Extra Fancy'' they re- 

 duce them to Fancy, or if Fancy, they pull them down to 

 Choice. In no case do they allow the apples to go back to 

 the owner to be repacked. They are repacked right there, 

 r had the importance of that impressed on me very strongly 

 at Wenatchee. 



A man brought in a load of apples and the inspector 

 looked them over and said, "Here. ]\Ir. Jones, these will 

 have to be repacked." These won't do. we cannot . pass 

 them, you will have to pack them over." He had quite a 

 talk with him about the defects of one kind and another, 

 and the man was very pleasant about it. and loaded them 

 up and went off. A fellow was standing by, one of the 

 local men, apparently, said, "How do you knowi that Jones 

 is going to repack those when he gets back to his warehouse? 

 Smith told me that last year you condemned a lot of his and 

 he took them back and put about six or eight of them into 

 every load he brought in and they all got by without re- 

 I-acking. " You can see how that would be. In the Hood 

 Eiver scheme they don't give them a chance to do that, but 

 repack them right at the central warehouse. 



Another thing they insisted on very strongly and that 

 was that the inspector should never do any explaining to the 

 teamster that brought in the load. The explanation was 

 all given to the owner. The owner was called up by the tel- 

 ephone or interviewed personally if possible and was given 

 to understand Avhy the apples were eondennied and if possi- 

 ble they got him to come in and look over that particular 

 lot of apples. Ill 09 cases out of 100 on looking over his 

 own apples he would admit they were not right and would 

 go back and fix it up. 



That is all I had in mind to say al)out the western dis- 

 trict. Since most of you seem to be still aw^ke. I should 

 like to say something about the Southern district Avhich 

 really interested me more than anything I saw out West and 

 which is so much nearer to us it seems more likely to prove 

 ^^ competitor of ours than the West. I will take just a min- 



