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don't know what size they are inside, and thev sav : "Are 

 those apples merchantable in their quality?" 



Another thing. Seconds generally mean seconds, and it 

 is a bad thing to say seconds. You might say No. 2, but what 

 are you going to do, have a No. 3 grade also? 



Prof. Wilson : You mean how are we going to distin- 

 guish sizes, and still keep the quality? 



A Member: Yes. 



Prof. Wilson : The LaFean bill says they shall be dis- 

 tinguished U. S. Standard size A, U. S. Standard size B, and 

 U. S. Standard Size C. Size C is just as high in quality as A 

 or size B. As a matter of fact. I had rather have size C than 

 size A, because they are not so big apples. 



AIr. J. H. Hale: Mr. President, I want to endorse what 

 Prof. Wilson has said about that grading of apples, and the 

 remarks on the LaFean bill. It is absolutely right that our 

 apples should be graded into a proper size, whether it is size 

 A, size B, or size C, they should be No. one of that class. 



Talking to a dealer in this city within half an hour, he 

 told me, while a few of our Connecticut growers have graded 

 according to that law in the last two years, that if he buys a 

 barrel of any one of those grades, he can sell eleven pecks of 

 them of the same kind. If he buys a barrel of Baldwins or 

 Greenings of the other ungraded kind, the best he has been 

 able to do this year is to sell sei'en pecks of good apples out 

 of it. He also told me that for those ungraded or unsized 

 a])])les he has had to pay over $4 a barrel, l)ut that he is will- 

 ing to pay $5 for the B grade and $6 and $7 for the A grade, 

 because he knows exactly what he is getting. There was a 

 difference of one and two dollars a barrel for proper grading. 

 This is from a business standpoint. 



But the consumers have been swindled over and over 

 again. Everyone who has sold any apples to a consumer, 

 where the apples were not graded, have swindled the buyer 

 every time, or else he. knowing that he was being swindled at 

 the start, has only paid us for culls and made us throw in a 



