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for, and I hav« framed them in the form of questions that I 

 would like to put to you and get an expression of opinion 

 of this body on. 



First, shall the term "'Ungraded" be changed to "Un- 

 classified"? Now, in Maine, where the law was passed 

 about a year before us, they used the term "Unclassified" 

 instead of "Ungraded". The objection that has been made 

 to the term "Ungraded" is this: That some growers don't 

 grade their apples at all and mark them "Ungraded," so 

 they are really orchard run — some very good apples and 

 some very poor apples in them. 



Other growers take out their fancies, take out their 

 A, and perhaps even take out all three grades, then the culls 

 which are left, are marked "Ungraded". Therefore, the 

 man who is packing orchard run comes into competition 

 with the man who is packing culls. — both under the same 

 mark. I think I mentioned this when I spoke on the point 

 last year. 



Now, there are two ways to change that. First, per- 

 haps you can change the term "Ungraded" to some other 

 term that will be more satisfactory. Second, another grade 

 might be added, but, that, in my opinion, would be very 

 unfortunate. I think this law should be kept as simple 

 as possible. I feel the addition of another grade would 

 simply make for farther complication. Over in New York 

 they have added another grade. They redrafted their law 

 last year and now have "fancy," "A," "B" and "C" and 

 "Ungraded". The "C" grade, however, has not been 

 used to any extent, and I do not believe it will be used to 

 any extent. Personally, I feel very strongly that the addi- 

 tion of another grade would be unfortunate in this law. 



Now the second suggestion which has been made is this : 

 That the size for fancy Baldwins, which is now 2 % inches, 

 should be reduced to 2 % inches; and there seems to be a 

 square difference of opinion on that. We have had consid- 

 erable correspondence with a number of growers and deal- 

 ers all over the state on it so far, the answers are just about 



