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"anything goes" — it's like putting caveat emptof — let the 

 bu3'er beware, right on the barrel — and the buyers do be- 

 ware. That is why the man with a fair percentage of good 

 apples is foolish to pack them ungraded — because then his 

 apples are coming into competition with all sorts of fruit. 



Now I want to speak for a moment of a few mistakes 

 growers are making with respect to the law. The first, the 

 biggest mistake, is in trying to dodge the law either by 

 packing in open boxes or marking all apples ungraded. 



Some people seem to have been afraid of this law — 

 afraid it was difficult — afraid it was complicated — afraid 

 that the slightest mistake would result in a jail sentence, 

 though as a matter of fact there is nothing anywhere in the 

 law about jail sentences — the maximum penalty being a fine. 

 I have tried to show that this is a simple law and that we 

 .have tried to enforce it in a reasonable way. 



In reality this law is a new tool which the state lias put 

 in the hands of the fruit growers to use. and of course if they 

 decline to use it nobody else will. You cannot expect to use 

 a new and untried tool with as much skill as when you have 

 had it for sometime. Tf you were a carpenter and were 

 given a breast drill and had never seen one you of course 

 would be rather awkward kbout using it at first — just so 

 with this law. It was to be expected that growers would 

 make mistakes in using it at first, but if you are ever going 

 to learn to use it you have got to begin sometime and cer- 

 tainly the very best time to liegin was tlie first year of the. 

 law. when those who are enforcing it are trying to give yon 

 the benefit of every doubt. If you keep in mind that this law 

 provided a grade for every kind of apples and then make an 

 honest try at putting the apples in their proper grade, you 

 will be surprised to see how easy it is to pack under the law. 



Another mistake growers are making — and it is really 

 the same mistake in a way — is packing or marking all their 

 apples ungraded. Now in some sections the crop was so 

 I-oor that perhaps this was necessary, but of course it is a 

 iractical question, as to whether you have enough clean 



