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of agriculture during the year nineteen hundred and sixteen a sum not 

 exceeding ten thousand dollars, and any unexpended balance of this sum 

 remaining at the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen may 

 be expended in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 



Section 5. Chapter one hundred and sixty-one of the General Acts of 

 the year nineteen hundred and fifteen is hereby amended by striking out 

 section two and inserting in place thereof the following new section : — 

 Section 2. Said chapter five hundred and seven is hereby further amended 

 by inserting after section seventeen the following new section: — Section 

 18. Every person, firm or corporation, except common carriers, who shall 

 receive, bring or cause to be brought into the state from such states, 

 provinces or countries as may be designated by the secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture, any fruits grown on plants, shrubs or trees of kinds 

 which also grow out of doors in this state, shall immediately after the 

 arrival thereof notify the state nursery inspector of such arrival and hold 

 the same until they have duly been inspected. 



Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [ATpproved 

 April 3, 1916. 



APPLE GRADING. 



General Acts, Chapter 63. 



An Act relative to the packing, grading and sale of apples. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty-one of the General Acts 

 of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen is hereby amended by striking 

 out section two and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 2. 

 The standard grades of apples when packed or repacked in closed pack- 

 ages within this commonwealth shall be as follows: — "Massachusetts 

 Standard Fancy" shall include only apples of one variety which are well 

 matured specimens, hand-picked, above medium color for the variety, 

 normal shape, of good and reasonably uniform size, sound, free from 

 disease, insect and fungus injury, bruises and any other defects except 

 such as are necessarily caused in the operation of packing, and shall be 

 packed properly in clean, strong packages: provided, that apples of one 

 variety which are not more than three per cent below the foregoing speci- 

 fications may be graded as "Massachusetts Standard Fancy". 



"Massachusetts Standard A" shall include only apples of one variety 

 which are well matured specimens, properly packed, of medium color for 

 the variety, normal shape, sound, practically free from disease, insect and 

 fungus injury, bruises and other defects except such as are necessarily 

 caused in the operation of packing: provided, that apples of one variety 

 which are not more than five per cent below the foregoing specifications 

 may be graded as "Massachusetts Standard A". 



"Massachusetts Standard B" shall include only apples of one variety, 

 which are well matured, properly packed, practically normal shape, practi- 

 cally free from disease, insect and fungus injury or any other defect that 



