upon tendering the market price, to take samples therefrom; 

 it provides a maximum penalty of S50 for the first offence and 

 a maximum penalty of $100 for subsequent violations of the 

 law, but exempts from prosecution any person who appears 

 to have acted in good faith solely as a distributor, or who can 

 furnish a guaranty from the person from whom he received the 

 apples that they are not adulterated or misbranded. 



REGULATIONS. 



As provided by section 11 of the law a public hearing was 

 held at the State House, Boston, on Thursday, August 5, 1915. 

 This was attended by representative growers, and by invited 

 officials from other State departments of agriculture, the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' 

 Association, the Massachusetts Department of Weights and 

 Measures, and the County Farm Bureaus, as well as other 

 interested persons. 



As provided by section 11, several of the regulations issued 

 by the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture as of Septem- 

 ber 1, 1915, under authority vested in him by sections 6 and 

 11 of the law, have subsequently been modified, and appear 

 herein as adopted on July 1, 1916. 



EXPLANATION OF REQUIREMENTS. 



The specific requirements of the Massachusetts Apple Grad- 

 ing Law, the United States Standard Barrel Law so far as this 

 applies to apple barrels, and the regulations, are herewith 

 tabulated for ready reference. 



" Closed Package " defined. 



Regulation. — A barrel, box or other container, the contents of which 

 cannot be seen sufficiently for purposes of inspection without removing 

 nails, wire, hoops or metal, cloth or paper strips, or similar seals or con- 

 trivances which cannot ordinarily be removed without mechanical assist- 

 ance or without destroying the usefulness thereof, except that string or 

 tape unless sealed shall not be considered as having been destroyed when 

 cut, broken or removed, shall be a "closed package" within the meaning 

 of the law. 



