248 
AMERICAN POMOI/OGICAR SOCIETY 
6. (a) The official rating of the contest exhibit, including identifica- 
tion basal score, and placing shall be determined upon a commercial basis, 
and by taking the average of the scores made by a jury of three expert 
judges to be selected by the society, from persons without the states or 
districts from which competing teams are entered. The determinations of 
the jury shall be made the day prior to, and also immediately after the con- 
test, and the jury findings, or ratings, shall be filed with the secretary of 
the society immediately after being made. 
(b). The above jury, with the approval of the contestants, shall have full 
charge of the details of the contest, subject to the accompanying regula- 
tions and such others as may be necessary to meet the exigencies of the 
occasion. 
7. Contestants shall be allowed a period of four hours in which to 
complete the work of the test, except that the verbal reasons for ranking 
may be at a subsequent period to be designated by the jury. Should the 
conditions of environment or other factors make it appear desirable, the 
jury at its discretion may extend or change the time period on request of a 
majority of the contestants. Contestants shall not be allowed to com- 
municate during the contest with other than members of the jury, on 
penalty of being barred brom the contest. 
8. The position of a contestant in scoring shall be determined by the 
nearness with which his scores approach the basal scores. 
9. Each contestant will be allowed not more than ten minutes for a 
verbal presentation of his reasons for ranking. The judges shall, in their 
discretion, ply the contestant at this time with specific questions as to the 
merits of certain plates or sets of plates, and on the merits of the con- 
testant’s replies to these questions shall determine his “reasoning per- 
centage.” 
10. At the close of the score-card work each contestant shall turn over 
to the clerk of the jury his score cards, each one plainly marked with the 
number of the contestant, the name of the variety, number of plate, the sev- 
eral score values for the separate specimens, the total plate score, and the 
relative rank of the plate. 
11. The plates shall be numbered consecutively from one to fifty-one. 
Each apple shall be numbered with the plate number and one of the first 
five letters of the alphabet. Thus, the apples of plate 3 will be designated 
«s 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e. 
12. Extreme care will be exercised to keep specimens infected with 
codling moth off the contest plates, and particular effort will be made to 
secure typical specimens of the various varieties free from serious blemishes. 
13. (a) Not more than one whole plate may be substituted. This plate 
shall be eliminated from scoring and ranking; the contestant simply naming 
