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apples in Canada. The effect of it has been to establish definite 

 grades. It is safe to say that there have been thousands of dollars 

 saved in law expenses alone by the definiteness of the definitions 

 and the conclusiveness of them from the fact that they are a 

 matter of law. The second benefit from the law is that the 

 Canadian pack is more uniform as a whole than it would have 

 been. Notwithstanding the many violations of the law, and not- 

 withstanding the wide range of grades that may be packed within 

 each of the grades noted in the Act, it is now being recognized 

 quite definitely in the markets of the world that Canadian apples 

 are in the main of the quality marked upon the outside of the 

 package. ' ' 



Mr. McNeill then quotes from a letter received from one of their 

 Canadian Consuls in an English city who says : * ' From a personal 

 interview with a dozen or more firms in this city, selected at ran- 

 dom, it is safe to say that this English city consumes $15,000 to 

 $20,000 worth of apples weekly during the season from October to 

 the middle of March or April. Of this amount about three-fifths 

 are Canadian, the remaining American. Practically all of these 

 apples are bought of commission men in Liverpool. The tendency 

 of the trade here is to favor the Canadian grower and packer, the 

 reason given for this being that Canada exercises a supervision 

 over the grading, packing and branding of its fruit that is en- 

 tirely lacking in the American product." 



United States Law for Apples. This is certainly very strong 

 evidence, coming as it does from men in so many varied lines of 

 work, and it is small wonder that the United States has made an 

 attempt to take up a similar line of work. The following act was 

 approved August 3, 1912, and everyone connected with the fruit 

 industry is watching its effect with the greatest interest. The 

 chief objection to the law is that its standards are not sufficiently 

 high. 



An act to establish a standard barrel and standard grades for apples 

 when packed in barrels, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the standard barrel for 



