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MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



Official insipectionsf. 



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Both the spirit and the letter of the !Maine Inspection laws 

 demand freedom from adulteration and truthful labeling. 



THE SALE OF APPLES. 



VERY IMPORTANT TO DEALERS. 



A dealer who is not posted on the requirements of Chapter 

 247 of the Public Laws of 1909 on the uniform grading, packing 

 and branding of apples should at once send to the Station for 

 a copy of the law (ask for Official Inspections 12) and give it 

 careful study. The law has to do with the sale of all apples, 

 whether grown in the State or out. that are in closed packages. 

 The law is explicit but it needs to be well understood in order 

 to avoid its violation. It covers two pages of fine print and 

 can hardly be abstracted. Its chief features are: The grading 

 of all apples as to size and imperfections; the size of the barrel 

 or bushel bo.x, and the way it must be labeled if not of standard 

 size; and the way all closed packages must be labeled so as to 

 state their content. The Director of the Experiment Station 

 is the executive officer, and the penalties and methods of hand- 

 ling violations are similar to those of the Maine Food and Drug 

 Law. 



