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Boston took less than one per cent of them on direct ship 

 ments. 



Now, most of the apples in Franklin County are packed 

 by the buyer. In a year like 1917 when the crop in New- 

 York State was light, the buyers were very numerous and, 

 there was keen competition between them and the grower 

 who sold in the fall got a fairly good price, and I think had 

 reason to be satisfied. 



Now, of course, Franklin County is near two state 

 lines, and in enforcing a law which only has jurisdiction 

 over this state, that point is sometimes of importance. There 

 is- keen competition between the buyers and sometimes there 

 is keen competition to see that the law is enforced against 

 the other fellow. 1 remember one of our inspectors telling 

 about walking up the tracks at Shelburne Falls and meeting 

 an apple buyer whom he knew slightly. The apple buyer 

 said, "Now. I want to see you succeed up here and see you 

 do well. This law is all right, but you are not giving satis- 

 faction. You are not strict enough. Now. you had so and 

 so down at Shelburne Falls station and his apples were 

 marked wrong and you let him remark them. Another man 

 up at another station had his apples marked wrong and you 

 let him repack them. Now. T want to tell you that people 

 are not satified." 



"Well," the inspector said, "I will represent the buy- 

 ers down at Shelburne Falls by the letters A and B; I will 

 represent the buyers up at the next station as C and D; and 

 those at Colerain, as F and F. Now A would like to see B 

 safe in jail ; B wonld like to see A in jail ; C and D and E and 

 F have the same feeling toward each other, but none would 

 like to see himself in jail. 



Now, that just illustrates something we have to look out 

 for occasionally. — that some of these buyers are very anx- 

 ious to have this law very strictly enforced against the other 

 man. 



This year we have had to actually prosecute for viola- 

 tions of the law. We have had only a few cases come to 



