paid the Board of Agriculture the (compliineiit of having 

 some one here to c„ddress you on the ^Massachusetts Apple 

 Grading Law, and for that reason I am not going to detain 

 jou long, because it is rather a dry sul)ject and you have 

 much more interesting subjects on your program, and much 

 more interesting speakers. 



I think it is fair to assume that by this time the members 

 <of this Association are fairly familiar with the provisions of 

 the Massachusetts Apple Grading Law, and it will not be 

 necessary for me to talk about them. I do want to talk to 

 you for a few moments about certain points that have come 

 up this year and about several suggestions and criticisms 

 that we have had about the law, and I would like to get an 

 an expression of opinion from this meeting on some of those 

 points- 



The growth in popularity of the open Boston bushel 

 "box is gradually making the barrel a less and less used 

 package in this part of the state. For that reason, less in 

 speetion, on the grading law was required this year in the 

 Boston market than there was last year. The automobile 

 truck, I think, has had a very large effect in making the 

 bushel box more popular, and a great many more apples are 

 coming into Boston in this package every year from as far 

 away as 50 miles. 



I had a talk with a member of this Association out in 

 Hudson during the apple picking season — one of the biggest 

 and best apple growers in this state— and he told me he did 

 not have a barrel on his place. — and he was using the bushel 

 box entirely, even for apples that he kept all winter, like the 

 Roxbury Russets. 



For that reason the principal part of the inspection 

 work has been in the big apple growing section in this state, 

 up in Franklin County. As you know, that section, as far as 

 shipping goes, extends from about Greenfield to Charlemont 

 on the Fitchburg Road, and we have been surprised to find 

 what a wide distribution over the Northeastern part of the 

 United States those apples had. 



