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him a barrel of apples, it seems to me that perhaps you have 

 the right to mark any way you and he agree. You are not 

 putting them into the open market, but making a special 

 contract with him. Now, according to the wording of our 

 law, they would have to be marked under the law, but as I 

 say. it seems to me that perhaps that is the point on which 

 the constitutionality of the New York law was attacked, 

 that it impaired the right to contract. 



MR. SEARLE: I have been endeavpring to find out 

 about that in Springfield but wasn't able to. We sell very 

 feAv apples headed, most are open, but I would rather give up 

 the private trade than to bother with sorting and stamping. 

 That is the way we feel personally. 



MR. ANNIN: I understand. There wouldn't be any 

 object in marking them if the barrel was left open, but if it 

 was closed according to the wording of our statute, the 

 packer would have to mark them even if private trade. 



:\IR. ilANN: That is the point I was thinking of. I 

 have some friends in Boston. They send up and ask me to 

 send down a barrel of nice apples, not of one kind, part 

 eating apples and part cooking apples. I can't head them 

 np that way and ship to them, because I am afraid of these 

 inspectors. I do not dare to do it. 



MR. CHASE : It seems to me a very serious defect in 

 the law that -is arbitrary and unjust. 



MR. JMANN: Of course, I do not suppose it would be 

 enforced like that. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Now, I think we will hear about 

 ''How to find a Market, and what to do to Interest the 

 Buyer. ' ' by Mr. Jolui Hardy, Jr. 



