Canadian Fruit Marks Act. 



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gation, for steam threshing, and for mutual insurance of all 

 kinds, including cattle insurance. 



Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, Bulletin No. 2, 

 Miscellaneous Series. ] 



Under the Fruit Marks Act, passed by the Canadian Legis- 

 lature last year, as amended by an Act which received the Royal 

 Assent in May last, all closed packages 



Ca MarlS n Act Uit of fruit intended for sale must be marked 

 in a plain and indelible manner with the 



packer's name and address before they are taken from the pre- 

 mises where they are packed ; the name of the fruit must also 

 be given, as well as a designation of the grade of fruit, which 

 shall include one of six marks. Fruit of the first quality is to 

 be marked No. I, or XXX ; fruit of the second quality, No. 2, 

 or XX ; and fruit of the third quality, No. 3, or X ; but the said 

 mark may be accompanied by any other designation of grade, 

 provided that designation is not inconsistent with, or marked 

 more conspicuously than, the prescribed mark. No closed pack- 

 age of fruit must be marked " No. 1 " or " XXX," unless such 

 fruit consists of weli-grown specimens of one variety, sound, of 

 nearly uniform size, of good colour for the variety, of normal 

 shape, and not less than 90 per cent, free from scab, worm holes, 

 bruises and other defects, and properly packed. Packing in 

 which the faced or shown surface gives a false representation of 

 the contents of the package is also prohibited. Should an 

 inspector under the Act find that a package is falsely marked 

 or packed, he is required to mark the words " Falsely Marked " 

 or " Falsely Packed " on the package, after notifying the packer. 



The Board of Agriculture have received a copy of an order 



issued by the Department of Agri- 

 Export of Channel culture of the United States on the 

 Islands Cattle to 

 United States. 2 5th ult., which provides that cattle 



imported into the United States directly 



from the islands of Jersey and Guernsey may be admitted 



withou t being tested by tuberculin. 



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