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On the seaboard there are cities whence ships go up and down. 

 On the river bank and prairie is the ever growing town 

 And in these urban confines there are men who strive and toil 

 The sinews of the work shop are recruited from the soil. 

 To the halls of legislature and the busy marts of trade 

 He has sent his finest manhood that a nation might be made. 

 Just a farmer. 



Then pledge the nation's farmer and his sweet devoted wife. 

 His husky rosy kiddies full of energy and life. 

 The reserve force of the country for the battles to be won 

 Is living in the open, in the wind and rain and sun. 

 For scattered through the country on the plains and on the hills. 

 Is the backbone of the nation the man who pays the bills. 

 Just a farmer. 



FRUIT PACKING LAWS. 



FEDERAL APPLE) LAW. 



(Sulzer Bill.) 



An Act To establish a standard barrel and standard grades for apples 



when packed in barrels, and for other purposes. 

 Be it enacted hrj the Senate and House of Keprcscntative^ of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled; 



That the standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimen- 

 sions when measured without distention of its parts : Length of stave, 

 twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, seventeen and one- 

 eighth inches ; distance between heads, twenty-six inches, circumference 

 of bulge, sixty-four inches outside measurement, representing as nearly 

 as possible seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches : Provided, That 

 steel barrels containing the interior dimensions provided for in this 

 section shall be construed as a compliance therewith. 



Sec. 2. That the standard grades for apples when packed in barrels 

 which shall be shipped or delivered for shipment in interstate or foreign 

 commerce, or which shall be sold or ofl'ered for sale within the District 

 of Columbia or the Territories of the United States shall be as follows : 

 Apples of one variety, which are well-grown specimens, hand picked, of 

 good color for the variety, normal shape, practically free from insect and 

 fungous injury, bruises, and other defects, except such as are necessarily 

 caused in the operation of packing, or apples of one variety which are 

 not more than ten per centum below the foregoing specifications shall 

 be "Standard grade minimum size two and one-half inches," if the mini- 

 mum size of the apples is two and one-half inches in transverse diameter; 

 "Standard grade minimum size two and one-fourth inches," if the mini- 

 mum size of the apples is two and one-fourth inches in transverse 

 diameter; or "Standard grade minimum sizie two inches," if the mini- 

 mum size of the apples is two inches in transverse diameter. 



Sec. 3. That the barrels in which apples are packed in accordance with 



