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Boston market. Some must get hy them. 



ME. ANNIN: What remedy Avonld the consumer have 

 who had bought apples that were not marked right? Wc> 

 l/.ave had one or two cases come up where the consumers 

 I'otified us they bought apples and lliought they were not 

 up to grade. We have looked them up in those instances. 

 In one case found the apples were perfectly all right, and in 

 the other that they were bought in open packages. The'.r 

 remedy would be to notify us. We would go in there and 

 we would look at the barrel and see who packed it, and take 

 it up with the packer. The packer is the party responsible 

 We believe the consumers can be of a great help in the en- 

 forcement of this law l)y creating pu]>lic sentiment in fav-^-r 

 of it. 



THE CHAIR:\rAN: I wonder if it wouldn't help if the 

 consumer would make his complaint on getting these apples 

 rather than putting them in a hot cellar basement for_ :i 

 month before putting in a complaint. 



]\rR. ANNIN: We should certainly take that into consid- 

 eration. One ease we had Avhere a woman in Chelsea noti- 

 fied us the other day she had some A apples that were very 

 poor. We sent an inspector over there and found the 

 reason was that she had a barrel of apples marked B which 

 Avere windfalls, and very much larger than those As. Th.> 

 A were perfectly good apples but she thought that because 

 tlie B were larger she was stuck on the A. (Laughter. ) 



MR. GEER : I would like to ask something about a cer- 

 tain section in the grading law, about the closed package. 

 I would like to Imve a little information as to what closed 

 package means. 



MR. ANNIN: Our test as to closed package has been 

 this. If it is necessary to break any fastening to get int<> 

 the package Ave call it a closed package. If it is not we call 

 it an open package. The closed barrel is. of course, a 

 closed package. The Boston Bushel box with three slats 

 across the top, the way some apples are exported we call an 

 open package for the reason you can look in and see the 



