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true. The law is there and we would not be doing our duty 

 i^ we did not enforce it. What I do mean to say is that 

 this first year we have taken into consideration the fact that 

 most growers were of course ignorant of the law and so we 

 have tried to lend a helping hand and teach them the law. 

 It might be said that our inspectors have done two sorts of 

 work — the inspectors in the country preventive work; the 

 inspectors in the city remedial work. What I mean' is this 

 — the inspectors in the country by visiting farmers and see- 

 ing shipments of apples at shipping stations were able to 

 prevent a great many violations of law by showing packers 

 how to mark their apples and seeing that it was done cor- 

 rectly. Of course, when an inspector in one of the city 

 markets finds a lot which is incorrectly marked the sliipment 

 is by that time far away from the packers and it is too late 

 to prevent a violation, the only thing to do is to -call the 

 packer's attention to it and show him how he can mark 

 them correctly next time. 



Now with cold storage apples the nature of the. business 

 allows us to do preventive work. When apples are removed 

 into cold storage they are apt to stay there for some time 

 and so it is possible for us to order the owner of incorrectly 

 marked apples to mark them correctly before offering them 

 for sale and with correctly marked apples to send the owner 

 a certificate of inspection, which practically gives him a 

 clearance card to sell the apples. 



Now, the effect of this law cannot as yet be clearly seen. 

 It has not been in force long enough. Certainly during t/he 

 first two months the eft'ect of the law on prices was negligible 

 — the only effect was tliat more apples than ever were packed 

 in o]KMi packages by growers who seemed a little afraid of the 

 law. In fact the law probably affected the price to the 

 farmer very little this year. During the last month, how- 

 ever, the law has begun to have an effect on apple prices to 

 some extent in that graded apples move fairly freely, while 

 ungraded apples stay on the sidewalk so to speak. 



Of course the word ungraded on a barrel means that 



