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growers have attempted to establish standard grades for 
the different kinds of apples, that would be recognized 
on the general market. Still further they have at- 
tempted to guarantee these brands or grades and if not 
found up to standard, as per guarantee, the purchas- 
ing price would be returned to the buyer. A cooperative 
Fig. 20.—CORNER IN A PACKING-HOUSE 
Showing table on which grading and sorting is done. 
organization in the West led in the establishing of uni- 
form grades. It worked out a set of rules defining the 
grades and gave instructions to growers or packers ex- 
plaining the way to handle fruit in order to conform 
with these standard grades. 
This plan worked so well on a limited scale that other 
crganizations took the matter up, and recently a number 
of states have enacted laws covering or defining stan- 
