good packers. The packers have got to do that for them- 

 selves. It is almost unnecessary to say that before packing A 

 apples you have got to raise A apples, but the principal thing 

 that this law will do, if you get behind it, and help those 

 who are trying to enforce it, is that it will prevent cider 

 apples and rotten apples and crab apples from coming into 

 the market and masquerading as A apples and hurting the 

 market for the real A apples. 



Now, we who have tried to enforce the law have of 

 course made many mistakes, for which I am very glad to 

 accept the responsibility. 



In closing I just want to thank the fruit growers of 

 31assachusetts for the support we have had; to ask for still 

 better support another year, and to suggest that you keep 

 in mind the fact that this is a simple, easy, reasonable law, 

 and that in order to learn to use it you have got to begin 

 sometime, and why not now? 



THE CHAIRjMAN: Are there any questions anyone 

 would like to ask IMr. Annin at this time in regard to the 

 ]M'assachusetts Grading Law? 



MR. GEf]R : J should like to inquire alnnit the different 

 sizes of fancy apples we shall pack. Supposing we have a 

 lot of different sizes, some 8-^/4 and some '^-^'■_ all in the 

 same barrel of fancy ajiples. 



Mil. ANNIX: The law says that they shall he of 

 reasonahly uniform size. Now. I should sny if you had a 

 barrel of fancy ap]iles. some 3-% and some 8-I4 that would 

 be all right, because none of those apples are so small that 

 anybody would complain. 



MR. ]\rANN: You allow a variation of more than a half 

 an inch in a fancy apple, 2--% to 8-1/4 inches. 



]MR. ANNIN : I said that would be allowable. 



MR. HUBBARD: I would like to ask what remedy a 

 consumer would have who bought a barrel of apples of a 

 commission man in Boston that had passed inspection and 

 did not prove to be right. Of course, they can't look at 

 every barrel of apples, it is impossible, that comes into the 



