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stock to make it pay to sort the apples, but if a man has a 

 reasonable proportion of clean stock he is certainly making 

 a mistake to throw A. B and Ungraded apples all together 

 and mark them "ungraded." because his im graded apples 

 are going to come into competion with the ungraded apples 

 of a man who has already sorted out his As and Bs. In 

 other words, unsorted apples, a large proportion of which 

 are too good for ungraded, are going to come into compe- 

 tition with culls. 



Growers are making some slight mistakes in marking 

 under the laAV. While these mistakes are not particularly 

 important, still if you could see the ditt'erence between a 

 really well marked barrel and a sloppily marked barrel you 

 would admit it was worth while to make your markings as 

 neat and complete as possible. We find for instance that a 

 number of growers are leaving off the words "one st'd Bbl." 

 This is absolutely essential and required, as I have said by 

 the United States Law as well as by our own law. Other 

 growers are using the word "standard" where the apples 

 are marked ungraded. I think this is a point which perhaps 

 our circular has not made sufficiently clear. The names of 

 the grades are Standard Fancy, Standard A, Standard B. 

 All other apples must be marked "ungraded" which means, 

 of course, that standard should not be used for this grade. 



The future success of this law rests almost entirely in 

 your hands. You are the people who pack the apples. The 

 inspectors don't pack them. All they do is a little of the 

 dirty work. Reinember that the success of any law depends 

 on the public opinion that is back of it. Law doesn't make 

 public opinion. Public opinon gives to law whatever 

 validity it has. We have plenty of laws on the statute 

 books now that are not enforced l)eeause public opinion is 

 not back of them. You cannot enforce a prohibition law if 

 everybody Avants to drink. You could not enforce a Sun- 

 day closing law in Berlin or Milwaukee. 



A very good example in this state of law which has not 

 public opinion behind it is the law with reference to working 



