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Ml. Am»i:ks<)N. WIu'Iv you Imvt' shi|>|>iii(;-})t>int iiiH|N>rlioiiM, tlv 

 voii inspect rvcn tiling that t^uvs out of n rcrlniM point, or whal 

 kind of an*aii>;«MU(>iit tio you havr for that with thi' Hhipprrsf 



Mr. SiiKitMAN. This is iusprrtion at riMpn'si, with rrrtniii oxro|»- 

 tious. For instance, thp Stnto of ('oh>rn(h> hiw phsmmI n hiw m which 

 it i>; n>H(h' the (hily of its hiirciiu tif inark«*ls to ■ ul 



of fruit and vc^ctahlcs ^tiui;^ out of tlu' Stale, i ,..,.. rr 



for business n-asons they can not reach the conunothtv, nml then 

 thev must issue a reh'ase so as to ch'ar the shipper if it i« shippofl 

 without State inspection. The ('o|ora<h> hiw does not [irescri* '.»it 

 a man may ship or what he may not ship, and it does not | ibu 



any tirade that he must conform to, hut provi(h>s that he must have 

 the inspection nuuU' and the certihcat(> put in the car showing the 

 resuh of the inspect ion. For th<* pur|)oses of this insi)e<-tion. the 

 State l)ureau of miirk<»ts has adopted all tlie j^ra«les we nave re<-om- 

 meinU'd for fruits and vei^etahU's, and they have dniwn up their 

 own where we have not made reconunemhit ions. 



Now, the hiw havinj^ re(|uircd the Stat<' a<;encv to (h> this work, we 

 reco*;nize tlie wState as an interested party witli reference to every 

 sliij)ment of fruit and vejjetal)U's maih' out (»f the State, and our a«;reo- 

 ment with the State hureau of markets in Colorach) provith»s that we 

 will jointly with the State, and at its rcfjuest, made a Federal inspec- 

 tion of every car of fruit and vejretahles tiiat the State ajjency in- 

 spects. The State authorities have divided up the territory into six 

 districts, under six supervisors. 



Mr. Andeksox. Do you mean hy that that you have two in>-p<'<'- 

 tions made? 



Mr. Sherman. The same man makes the inspection, and there is 

 oidy one insnection. There is one operation and one certifi<ate is 

 issued. In that case legally we do not know the shipper at all, and 

 we only know the State of Colorado. The shipper must submit to 

 the inspection and the shipper is delightetl to have the Fe<leral cer- 

 tificate added to the State certificate, wliich he must accept and 

 pay for. 



Mr. Andeh.son. I should imagine that it would be a pretty expen- 

 sive proposition to make an inspection of every carload of fruit and 

 vegetabh^s shipped from the State of Colorado. Are those cars con- 

 centrated at gateways? 



Mr. Shkrman. No, sir; they have a complete system covering the 

 entire State. They have divided the State into six districts under 

 six supervisors. ()ut of the fees that they ct)llected last year fri>m 

 this service they sent the supervisors of those six districts to Chicago, 

 and we gave them there our regular course in inspector training, say, 

 for a month. Then we made them cooperative t'mployees under the 

 State law. Unfortunately they could »)nly be paid S1..")(H) a year, 

 and it is not to be expected, of course, that thev can hold good men 

 at that salary. Therefore we made those six district men coopera- 

 tive employees and added S3()0 a year to their salaries. We matle 

 them I nited States food products inspectors untler the law and 

 authorized them to inspect commodities received in their markets, 

 just as our men do in New York and Chicago. For instance, they 

 can make inspections of shipments coming into Ciran<l Junction from 

 points outside of the State. In that connection, we were able to 



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