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be high colored, that is fixed by regulation and with the 

 redder varieties is 75% color. 



The A grade requires, in brief, a good looking apple 

 with one-third color. Before this law was passed it was the 

 custom of the trade to pack apples as number ones and 

 number twos. This A grade apple about conforms to a good 

 Xo. 1 apple, except that it is a little higher in color. The 

 old No. 1 grade would take a great many apples from the 

 center of the tree which while sound and of good size have 

 not enough color for the A grade. Notice that no particular 

 size is required for the A grade — there is simply the require- 

 ment that the size of the smallest apple be stated on each 

 package. 



Now. I have stated that this A grade is a good looking 

 apple. People ask us ''how much sooty blotch — how much 

 Baldwin spot" in the A grade. The answer to that is not 

 enough to injure the appearance of the apple. This A apple 

 is not a Fancy apple, but is a good looking fair colored 

 apple. Notice that the color requirement is not high — only 

 a third. Some people seem to have had the idea that it was 

 unreasonably high. Remember that any blemish that will 

 injure the appearance of the apple will throw it into the B 

 grade. 



The B grade is the useful grade — a sound, fairly clean 

 apple with no color requirement — this apple does not have 

 to be particularly good looking, but it must be useful ; any 

 defect which seriously injures its usefulness will put it in 

 the ungraded class. But a defect which will come off when 

 you peel the apple will not throw it out of the B grade. 



Those, it seems to me, are fairly simple and defhiitc- 

 uleas of the three grades— the Fancy Western boxed apple- 

 the high colored for the Fancy, the good looking No. 1 with 

 a third color for the A, and the No. 2 — the useful apple for 

 the B. 



Now the second thing this law does is to require certain 

 marks on closed packages of apples. This is the branding 

 part of the law. Each of these marks is essential — each tells 



