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time, there to work with the packers. There, I believe, is where 

 we must do more missionary w^ork than we have done in the 

 past, and that it may lead up to more uniform packing. 



I have in mind one bu^•er who has had twentv-six to thirtv 

 men in my State during the past season, the past year, and he 

 sent out good men, faithful men, to pack, but there must have 

 been an inevitable variation in the standards of packing by the 

 different men in charge of the group; and I think our inspectors 

 at the cars should be more careful, because the cars are loaded 

 from half a dozen or more orchards, and only one or two bar- 

 rels opened for inspection, and no idea of the actual condition 

 of the car. 



It seems to me we ought to get back to the primitive work, 

 if you may call it so, educative work in packing sheds at the 

 time of packing the apples that the owners and growlers may 

 receive the benefit of training as well as the packer and avoid 

 the friction which grows out of any drastic enforcement of 

 stringent legislation. 



