648 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



SULZER APPLE PACKING AND GRADE LAW. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 

 standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimensions 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 barrel 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 offered for sale within the District 

 of Columbia or the territories of the United States, shall be as follows : 



Apples of one variety, ivhich 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 minimum size of the apples is two and one half 

 inches in transverse diameter; "Standard Grade minimum size two and 

 one fourth inches," if the minimum size of the apple is two and one 

 fourth inches in transverse diameter; or "Standard Grade minixnum 

 size tiuo inches," if the minimum size of the apples is two inches in 

 transverse diameter. 



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

 with the provisions of this act may be branded in accordance with sec- 

 tion two of this act. 



Sec. 4. That all barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to be 

 below standard if the barrel bears any statement, design or device 

 indicating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as herein 

 defined, and the capacity of the barrel is less than the capacity pre- 

 scribed by section one of this act, unless the barrel shall be plainly 

 marked on end and side with words or figures showing the fractional 

 1 elation which the actual capacity of the barrel bears to the capacity 

 prescribed by section one of this act. The marking required by this 

 paragraph shall be in black letters of size not less than seventy-two 

 point one inch gothic. 



Sec. 5. The barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to be mis- 

 branded within the meaning of this act : 



First — If the barrel bears any statement, design or device indicating 

 that the apples contained therein are "Standard Grade" and the 

 apples, when packed, do not conform to the requirements prescribed 

 by section two of this act. 



Second — If the barrel bears any statement, design or device indicat- 

 ing that the apples contained therein are "Standard Grade" and the 

 barrel fails to bear also a statement of the name of the variety, the 

 name of the locality Avhere grown and the name of the packer or the 



