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At any rate, the laws now on the statute books 

 seem to be highly insufficient. The course of future 

 legislation can not be predicted, of course, but it is 

 hardly likely that sufficient discontent will arise under 

 the present organization of the fruit trade to give the 

 force necessary to pass any new law stringent enough 

 to count for much. 



Following are the laws which have been found un- 

 repealed. Most of them are of comparatively recent 

 date. 



THE NEW YORK SMALL-FRUIT PACKAGE LAW 



The New York small-fruit package law (chap. 

 509, laws of 1899) is as follows: 



An Act to define the size of small-fruit paclcages. Became 

 a law May 3, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. 

 Passed, threefifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section i. Small-fruit packages. — The standard of meas- 

 ures for buying and selling strawberries, raspberries, black- 

 berries, currants, gooseberries, and other small fruits, shall 

 be the quart, which shall contain when even full sixty-seven 

 cubic inches; the pint when even full shall contain thirty- 

 three and one-half cubic inches; the half-pint, which, when 

 even full, shall contain sixteen and three-quarter cubic inches. 



Sec. 2. Marks on baskets. — All manufacturers of small- 

 fruit packages, such as quarts, pints, and half-pints, that 

 make or cause to be made such packages that are of less size 

 or capacity than the standard sizes as defined in Section i of 

 this Act, shall mark each such quart, pint, and half-pint with 

 the word "short" on the outside in letters not less than one- 

 half inch in hight. 



