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like to bring out, I am sure Mr. McCarthy would be glad to 

 answer. 



Question. Wouldn't it help things to have everybody put 

 their names on their packages of products? 



Mr. McCarthy. That would have to be done for the thing 

 to be of any value; that is essential to this whole plan. In the 

 Danish egg, for instance, there is a brand put upon the egg, so 

 you can trace the product back to the organization. So, in all 

 the butter standards that I have seen, there is a sign of some 

 kind, a letter or something, which will show exactly the man 

 or the organization that had that product, so that you can trace 

 the thing back as you would in bookkeeping. That is essential. 

 Then you can put the responsibility upon the man who got up 

 the product. I think that it is absolutely essential that you 

 should do that, but of course you know there is going to be 

 very great opposition to it. The great middlemen who buy this 

 produce want to put their own names and labels on it, and 

 they will cut off your label or will refuse to buy your material 

 if it is labeled. There ought to be, in my opinion, national 

 legislation to protect the man who wants to put a label upon 

 his produce. Some of our material in Wisconsin is labeled, goes 

 down to the Chicago market, and the buyers or packers down 

 there take the label off and then you cannot tell whose material 

 it is. You should be able to trace it right back to where it 

 comes from; that is essential. The Dutch brands look like dol- 

 lar bills. There is a number up in the corner, and on the butter 

 lieg there is a label. You buy these labels from the government; 

 the government then has your record, who you are and who 

 bought them, and can trace every piece of material you buy. 



Mr. W. H. Atkins. Last year was a good peach year. I 

 understand in New Jersey and elsewhere large quantities went 

 to waste. It seems a pity that large crops should go to waste, 

 and your talk along the line of contributing knowledge as to 

 where the buying centers might be is of interest. I know that 

 Holyoke could have used several carloads more of peaches, 

 provided they could have been brought in there and placed 

 before the public at a reasonable price so they could get hold of 

 them, while I understand there were people in New Jersey who 

 could not sell them. I understand there was a man who 



