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*ippears to me that we really should call our A and B hand 

 picked, and then, if we want to, make an exception in the 

 •case of certain apples, like Gravensteins, where hay is used — 



1 know of a ease a year ago, where a party bought an or- 

 chard of fruit and they were put in storage and the people 

 that picked the apples sent a man in the fall who picked up 

 the best ones from th<3 ground and put them in with the 

 barrels of fruit and they went to storage, and as a result 

 when those apples came out there was a very large percent 

 age of poor apples. They were justified in doing that be- 

 cause the law did not state they had to be hand picked, and 

 it seems to me from the standpoint of the man who owns. 

 who stores the apples, the commission man's standpoint, ho 

 ought to have some protection on that point. 



]VIE. ANNIN : In regard to the packing of Gravensteins 

 T would say that from my own experience and knowledge 

 very few Gravensteins that are consumed in the Boston mar- 

 ket are packed in barrels, but in ordinary times a good many 

 Gravensteins are exported, and exported in boxes with 

 slatted or closed tops. Of course, this year there has been 

 no exporting. 



MR. DAVENPORT : Would they export a Graven- 

 stein apple that is dropped that way? 



MR. ANNIN: I think they might; yes, in early Sep- 

 tember. Now, perhaps we cnn come back to that point for 

 discussion ; but suppose we take the second point of reduc- 

 ing the minimum size for fancy Baldwin varieties from 



2 % inches to 2 14 inches. This is a matter not fixed in the 

 law. The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture is 

 empowered to fix regulations for the color and size. And 

 after a hearing about two years ago the sizes were fixed. 



Just one other point I want to say about that: It 

 seems to me that unless there is a pretty large sentiment in 

 favor of doing it that it would be rather unfair to people who 

 have made their stencils for this law with the word ' Hui grad- 

 ed," to compel them now, after the law has been in opera- 

 tion only a couple of years, to change it to ''unclassified.'" 



