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as to the quality. His customers come to know that they can 

 depend on the grade of Canadian 3 X so that today in the 

 EngHsh markets Kings, Spies and Russets are selling on an 

 average from 50 cents to $1 .00 per barrel higher than the same 

 varieties of American apples put up for No. i or fancy. 



I am heartily in favor of having a similar law in the United 

 States but I fully realize that it would meet with opposition at 

 first and no doubt would embarrass the packers and growers for 

 a time, especially the small growers who in many cases never 

 ^eem to want to learn how to properly select and pack their fruit, 

 but these matters adjust themselves in a short time and I think 

 in a few years everyone would be pleased with the results of the 

 enforcement of such an act. 



Of course there would be a tendency to place the packing of 

 fruit in the hands of trained experts, but I see no obection to 

 this as every grower can become an expert packer if he will or 

 can afford the time to educate himself in the proper selecting 

 and packing of his fruit. 



The chief advantage to Canadian fruit is the fact that the 

 world's markets have come to know that they can get exactly 

 what the brand on each package indicates, and also a standard 

 well made hard wood package — never a soft wood, straight, or 

 weak half coopered, undersized barrel. Canadian packers would 

 not dare to use such barrels as many Maine apples are shipped in. 



