to 



course it is necessary to open the barrel and see if the fruit 

 conforms to the marks. 



Violations are reported to the office and then our pro- 

 cedure has been either to haA-e an inspector call the man 

 up by telephone or go and see him personally or else, and 

 this has been done in most cases, send him a letter pointing 

 where his mistake has been — how his barrels were wrongly 

 x'tarked and how they should have been marked in order to 

 be correct. For this letter, of course, we had to use a form- 

 on which was left a blank to be filled hi for each particu- 

 lar case. We had a number of very nice letters from 

 growers and the spirit exhibited has certainly been very 

 helpful. We also have had a few kicks on these letters, but 

 not nearly as many as we expected. A few growers seemed 

 to think they were being "hounded" because thej' received 

 one of these letters, but in reality this method of enforcing 

 the laAv was the most lenient and reasonable one we could 

 adopt. The law states specifically that any violator of the 

 law shall be fined. In merely calling a first offender's at- 

 tention to this mistake we have not only been giving the 

 grower the benefit of every doubt as to his intentions, but 

 have also been trying to help him to profit by his mistake. 



I knoAV in one nearby state where they have adopted 

 an entirely different method of enforcing the law. — 

 they have already collected fines to the amount of four or 

 five thousand dollars. AVe did not believe that was the best 

 way to enforce the law this year because of course it was 

 essential to make the law a success to get the support of the 

 fruit growers and not to antagonize them. So far it has not 

 been necessary to prosecute any eases. We hope it will 

 never be neeessar3^ This board has enforced a nursery in- 

 spection la^v and enforced it thoroughly for fifteen years 

 without a single prosecution and. with the support of the 

 fruit trade, there is no reason why we cannot do the same 

 with this law. 



I do not want to give anyone the impression that we do 

 not intend to prosecute if necessary — just the opposite is 



