THIRTY-THIRD BIIjNNIAI, SESSION 
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class barrel. That is, to be sure, the highest grade that we are consider- 
ing, really fancy; and yet the very best grade of the Sulzer law, as already 
given and stated, shows that it permits the barrel to be packed with a peck 
and a quarter of cider culls. When a shipment comes from Canada with 
absolutely no defective apples in it, how may we expect the market to treat 
us over there? We are competing with the Canadian apples, which are 
gaining the trade; and without any kind of favored conditions — or as 
good — they are growing and marketing something better than we are. 
Now are we going to submit to that as growers? This law does not 
hurt the commission man like it hurts the grower. We want a market 
and a good market. We want to see our apples as reliable, as well handled, 
and as well packed as any that come into the markets of the world from 
any source; and unless we do that we can not expect to get ^he prices all 
the way through that other people get for their apples. 
It is perfectly true that the Rice-Keene people and others, shipping 
out our “Albemarle Pippins,” and our Winesaps, will always top the market, 
or come very near it in England. But they are packed just like these fancy 
Canadian apples are packed. And this is the way we try to pack all our No. 
l’s. Why not keep up that standard; raise the standard as high as Canada 
raises it, and bring up our people to a proper packing and grading standard? 
To a standard that permits no defective apples in a first grade barrel. 
That is the thing that we ought to do; it is our duty, and I cannot for the 
life of me see that any of the men taking this view has made a single 
mistake in it. 
And I believe that it is necessary for us as fruit growers to protect 
ourselves by asking Congress for amendments to this law that will put us 
at least on an equal footing with our competitors in Canada. I am speaking 
now to the Eastern Fruit Growers especially, because their affiliations are 
a part of our American Pomological Society. We cannot have the stand- 
ard too high. That Maine law would be satisfactory so far as I know 
and believe, but it seems to me peculiarly necessary with the foreign trade, 
as well as the domestic, that we should not be hampered by this law that 
permits frauds to be perpetrated and stamped STANDARD when they are 
free from such things under the Canadian law. And it is a most disgrace- 
ful thing that permits a peck or two of cider culls in the middle of a standard 
barrel, when upon the Canadian side there is a real standard. 
Question: I would like to ask Mr. Woods one question. Where did 
you get the information that the E. F. G. A. at its yearly meeting or else- 
where have asked to have the Sulzer law amended? 
Mr. Woods: I was chairman of the committee on resolutions of that 
first meeting. Before that committee several matters came up, and that was 
one of them; and among the resolutions recommended to the association 
was the demand for the amendment of the Sulzer bill, which passed unan- 
imously, and I was present when it passed. 
Question: In the committee and not in the Association? 
Mr. Woods: Yes sir; and the resolutions were reported to the Associa- 
tion and passed by the Association. 
