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Avalk down the stream. He came across this boy sitting on 

 the bank dangling a string in the water. He said to the boy, 

 ''What are yon fishing for?." "Suckers." Have you 

 caught any?" '*No." He stood there Avatching develop- 

 ments and nothing developed, but as he watched he noticed 

 a little swirl in the water down by the roots of a tree and 

 going down to make a closer observation he discovered a 

 string leading into the water and pulling out the string lie 

 discovered what was at the other end and found a half a 

 dozen splendid bass. He said to the boy. "How is this? I 

 understood you were fishing for suckers." The boy 

 answered, "I was, but these plaguey bass kept stealing my 

 bait, so I tied them up until I finished fishing for suckers.'' 

 (Laughter.) 



Now. I wish to say in closing that last week as the final 

 result of an attempted case to enforce the law the Supreme 

 Court ruled that the New York State law was unconstitu- 

 tional and it has been put up to the Legislature to so read 

 into it certain words that it will be constitutional* The 

 mass of the New York State Fruit CTrowers are heartily in 

 favor of it. 



THE CHAIRMAN : We are pleased to have these re- 

 in arks by IMr. Taylor. 



^IR. ]\nLES: Briefly, what are tlie i)oints on which it 

 Avas claimed unconstitutional? 



:\IR. TAYLOR: It Avas not decided. 



MR. ]\[ILES: I AA'Ould like to inquire also if apples 

 ]'acked under the Connecticut laAV are salealile in IMassachu- 

 hvUs market Avithout any changed marking or vice versa? 



MR. ANNIN: Yes, they are. Our laAv only refers to 

 apples packed in JMassachusctts, except if a groAver in 

 another State chooses to use the iNlassachusetts laAv he can, 

 but it is optional Avith him. 



MR. AVILDER : I hope that this law Avill l)e thoroughly 

 tried out 1)y the fruit groAvers of ^Massachusetts. T thorough- 



*Note : The speaker Avas in error. Tlie Xcav York law 

 has not lieen declared unconstitutional. 



