2.cents per cwt. or 1 cent per bushel. 
The commission began to function in 
the fall of 1939. 
Opposition soon developed how- 
ever, more as to method than as to 
purpose, and an injunction was se- 
cured in a state court, on the grounds 
of unconstitutionality. This injunction 
prevented collection of the tax on the 
1940 crop. Finally the State Supreme 
Court reversed the earlier decision 
and reinstated the law, so that it is 
now in full effect again. There ap- 
parently will be nothing further stand- 
ing in the way of the promotional 
program on the 1941 crop. 
However, there is one point in the 
law which irks growers considerably, 
and that is the requirement to use 
stamps. While seeming to be a minor 
matter, this has aroused considerable 
of a tempest. So many reasons have 
been stated why the growers don’t 
like stamps that it would be hard to 
remember them all, but the words of 
one grower heard at a recent meet- 
ing are expressive enough: ‘“'l'll pay 
the tax,’ he said, ‘‘but I'll be blamed 
if I'll lick those stamps!”’ 

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So what to do about that has not 
yet been decided, but it seems that 
until an amendment is secured the 
tax will have to be paid through 
stamps which are in some way affixed 
to the packages. 
As it has been well known that 
the growers don't like stamps, meet- 
ings have been held to get the 
thoughts of the growers as to the 
best method of collecting the tax: 
nothing seems to have been accom- 
plished in this line however; and it 
does not appear that the method can 
be changed now, for if the commis- 
sion acted differently than the law 
stipulates they would probably be 
stopped by another injunction. 
That in brief is the situation in 
Michigan. A word about how the 
commission appointed by the gover- 
nor, operates, may be of interest. By 
the wording of the act, the five mem- 
bers of this commission must be 
practical fruit growers, citizens and 
residents of the state, and have ob- 
tained the bulk of their income from 
fruit raising for at least five years; 
and over twenty-five years of age. No 
salary is paid the members and they 
are allowed only such traveling ex- 
penses as are allowed to state em- 
ployes. They are paid $5 per meet- 
ing and so far have held eight meet- 
ings. C. C. Taylor, orchardist from 
Albion, is chairman of the commission. 
Mr. Truman Nold, manager of the 
National Apple Institute, which has 
its headquarters in Indianapolis, at- 
tended these meetings and gave some 
very pertinent facts to the growers. 
Some of the figures were pretty start- 
ling to those who were not already 
familiar with them. For instance, he 
showed that whereas 90 lbs. of apples 
per capita were consumed in the U.S. 
in 1900, this figure dropped to 32 lbs. 
per capita in 1940. The decline was 
steady throughout the period, not 
with any sudden drop. 
And fo stack against these figures 
of apple consumption, Mr. Nold 
quoted figures for orange sales, which 
jumped from 15 lbs. per capita in 
1906 to 39 lbs. in 1936. As a result, 
