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half in favor of a change and Jialf opposed to it. There has 

 been a feeling- that an apple which was strictly fancy as to 

 color, as to shape and as to variety characteristics, but 

 which was only 2^/2 inches in size — I am speaking of the 

 Baldwin variety — should be admitted to the fancy grade. 

 On the other hand, some people feel that size is an important 

 qualification in the term "fancy" and that there should be 

 no change. 



Now, the third amendment suggested is this : That the 

 apples in the A grade and B grade should be hand picked. 

 When the law was first passed in 1915 the words "hand 

 picked" were in the specification on the A and B grade. 

 The following year. 1916, before the law went into effect 

 as a compulsory law, those words were taken out ; and they 

 were taken out for reasons that seemed good to the Legisla- 

 ture and the people who advocated taking them out. 



Now, the great trouble in this, state it seems to me in 

 putting the words "hand picked" into those two grades is 

 this : That with some of our summer and fall varieties, — nota- 

 bly Gravenstein, which is an important variety in the state, 

 the apples are not picked, but hay is put under t*ie'tree and 

 the apples alloAved to drop, they are apples that are going 

 to be consumed by the first or middle of November, and 

 there really seems to me to be no objection to letting them 

 go into the A grade. I feel it would be an injustice to 

 force all such apples into the ungraded class simply because 

 they were not hand picked, and it seems to me that the 

 point is covered in this way, that if they are bruised or 

 materially injured then they cannot go into the A or B 

 grade. T do not see why that does not cover the point. 



MR; davenport .• I would like to ask how many of 

 those Graven steins are put up in barrels or in boxes so 

 they would have to come under the law? 



MR. ANNIN: Very few. 



MR. DAVENPORT: I was under the impression that 

 there was a large percentage of them put in open boxes and 

 baskets which wouldn't come under the law, anyway. It 



