2022 Miscellaneous Laws 



liimdred quarts of grain or dry measure. A barrel of apples shall 

 be of the following dimensions: head diameter, seventeen and one- 

 eighth inches ; length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches ; 

 bulge, not less than sixty-four inches outside measurement, to be 

 known as the standard apple barrel. Or where the barrel shall be 

 made straight or without a bulge, it shall contain the same number 

 of cubic inches as the standard apple barrel. Every person buying 

 or selling a^^ples, pears, quinces or potatoes in this state by the 

 barrel, shall be understood as referring to the (juantity or size of 

 the barrel, specified in this section, but when potatoes are sold by 

 weight, the quantity constituting a barrel shall be one hundred 

 and seventy-four pounds. No person shall make, or cause to be 

 made, barrels holding less than the quantity herein specified, 

 knowing or having reason to believe that the same are to be used 

 for the sale of apples, quinces, pears or potatoes, unless such barrel 

 is plainly marked on the outside thereof with the words '' short 

 barrel " in letters of not less than one inch in height. Xo person 

 in this state shall use barrels hereafter made for the sale of such 

 articles of a size less than the size specified in this section. Every 

 person violating any provision of this section shall forfeit to the 

 people of this state a sum of five dollars for every barrel put up 

 or made or used in violation of such provision. 



§ 16. Method of sale of certain commodities. All meat, meat 

 products and butter, shall be sold or oii'ered for sale by weight. 

 All other commodities not in containers shall be sold or offered for 

 sale by standard weight, standard measure or numerical count, 

 and such weight, measure or count shall be marked on a label or 

 a tag attached thereto; jDrovided, however, that vegetables may be 

 sold by the head or bunch. (As added by chapter SI of the Laws 

 of 1012.) 



§ 10-a. Certain sizes of containers when used for vegetables, 

 produce and fruit prescribed. Xo person shall manufacture, sell, 

 oiler or expose for sale containers for vegetables, produce or fruit 

 that are not of the capacity of one l)arrel, half-barrel, one bushel, 

 or multiples of the barrel or sub-multiples of the bushel divisible by 

 two; provided, however, that fruits, vegetables and produce may 



