The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-28
SHALL VIRGINIA have
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them think their present pack Ia quite
aatisfActcry; others would like TO put
up a little different and better pack,
but hardly know just how to 60 about
tt: stiii more OF them are scared to
death ut the mere mention of being
compelled to pack under certain
standard, while a few are out and out
"a~sn" any legislative grade whatso-
ever for fear it might put a stop to
their usual custom of putting one
over" on the apple buyer
The commercial fruit grower wants
. legal standard because he knows II
Is greatly to his advantage to have
one
The farfner-fruit grower, will want
it when ITS benefits are explained 10
him and he is shown that II to just
as easy for him 10 put up standard
pack as to put ap any other kind
He Ia the man to he taught to help
himself.
The ''hog-lot" apple raiser and the
dishonest packer don't want any law
at all of any kind and they are the
fellows who will have to have n Law
crammed down their throats for their
own salvation and the safety of the
rest Of ~
Purpose Of Standard Law.
There is nothing 10 be afraid Of in
packing under a compulsory leEalized
standard II does not mean that less
fruit can be harrcled and that the
Gull pile will be larger than usual;
that the expenses Will be increased or
that the time or labor of packing will
be more than it has been. No better
apples are required IN standardized
pack than we are all accustomed to
handing from year 20 year. Therc
is nothing mysterious about IT In
fact, the whole purpose OF standard
law is merely to set some dennits
standard OF certain specifications as
TO what shall be legally recognized as
the different grades, and TO see that
tsese grades are truly represented by
the brands on the barrel in which
they are packed,
How II Protects Us
legal standard. specified and
made mandatory by law, will be a
wonderful protection TO the fruit
grower who packs under II, and 1t 10
for this reason. and this reason alone.
that q is being advocated as a good
thing for our Virginia orchard ists
Too long have we been at the mercy
o. our selling agents and been forced
70 take Just what thew choose 70 allow
US FOR our fruit consigned to them. II
did us no good to kick on returns
= 43Ak VIZ tAspNEiHt biA'A NNAV bSF w.
II We wrote asking why our fruit did
no. bring more money. the usual re-
ply was on on color "off on size"
r&of. for some other res son which
we could not refute Many carload
If apples has been refused when 1t
fe7 he'd the pt!~v1 h:lser on an excuse
Of It's being off on this or off on
that We could not help ourselves
when the buyer or the commission
man told us our fruit was off We
could not prove that our pack was
right and that he was simply trying
tn beat us Why couldn't We prove
1T Becau use we had no legal stand
ard recognized by the courts; we had
no localized grade: We did not have
a legal leg to stand on We may
have thea-1t w were selling No. Is
~ 7e ~ fancv fruit whichever
II might have been in our own minds
uIyrr saew We had no come
hscn ~o matter What he chose to call
oar -ea4e ana pack He knew there
we- caar' IN the Land which
could automatically protect our claims
without having a legalized standard by
VT Cd ta fedse tho fruit as 70 whether
va- off here and there as
the buyer wished VS. 10 believe
aiGc 81 Inspectors
~roea We have adopted a
standard law for Virginia and are