Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-23

come before the Legislature but no APP
preparation was made for the enforce
ment of the act.
"SeVentY-fiVe per cent of the APP
pies bought in this State are pur-
chased of spectators, said Mr. keiser.
THE Main profit of the specu-
lator is the commission on the bar
res The State Pathological Society
wants to create a standard and not
have the apples packed in an inferior
way No attempt is being made to
infringe upon the right of any grow
er. What we want is a trademark
which will show what the apples are.
Mr. Keiser, upon being questioned by
Senator Moulton, of the committee
cited the ease of the state of Ore
gon, which has a standard barrel.
w II. Conant of Buckfield, pres
dent of the oxford Bears Fruit Grow
ers' Association, said that the specu-
Iators and often the growers broke the
law relating to the branding of APP
pies Sometimes person cannot tell
ona thing from the branding of the
apples what the fruit really is. There
has been more poor branding on ac-
tOulll III IS iloi dll1t AfittIi Ou6l any
desire To be dishonest. Up in oxford
county the growers have graded the
fruit well and the apples have been
marked according to the present law.
He believed that the proposed amend
ment for more uniform system
should be passed by this Legislature.
DR. George NJ. Twitchell of Auburn
said that it would be we'll for the peo-
pie of Maine to appreciate the fact
that tie growing of the fruit is a great
proposition. lie was only a small
grower but he was greatly interested
in tile industry and believed that there
certainly should be some kind of leg
islation for the better branding of the
apples. Oftentimes the apples are in
color and Irregular in size Marks on
the barrels should tell what the APP
pies are. Enough care has not been
exercises in the color of the apples nor
has the uniformity in size been attend
ed to. He knew of a man who sold
Baldwin Al apples for IS a barrel. The
apple situation is so serious at Spo-
kane, Washington, that a fund of s25,
900 has been raised to send commit
tee to the Eastern part of the coun-
lfN u III" tSllStlte COiihltloIIS' All Jul
apples should be packed with an hon
est brand. He had been told that APP
pies had been shipped from this State
with no brand at all.
F. ID. Cummings of Portland, an APP
pie shipper, favored some amendment
to the law although he did not exact
~ favor the amendment before the
committee. He had known of West
ern buyers who wanted apples pack
ed poorer than the Maine law. 1t is a
pie business on account of the West
ern competition. New York has law
which is better than the Maine law,
and until our standard is as high as
New York the reputation of the State
of Maine as regards he apple indus
try will not be as good. This amend
ment would not tend to very much
improve the standard of the Maine
apple. He has sold thousands of bar
rels TO Germans and they say that the
Maine grade is too low that the APP
pies are too small.
r. L. Cummings of Paris was in ia
vor of the present law allowing 10 per
cent. for defective apples, giving buy
ers and packers more rather than less
liberty in branding their apples and
oversight over them. He objected to
placing the name of the owner at the
time of packing on the barrel or box.
Representative Edward II. Cook of