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Fruit standardization There has been considerable inquiry from 



the fruit growers of this State regarding the two fruit standardization 

 bills passed by the last session of the Legislature, and approved by the 

 Governor. These bills will go into effect August 9th, and are given 

 below. 



APPLE STANDARDIZATION. 



CHAPTER 712. 

 An act to cstailish a standard for the packing and marketing of apples, fixing 

 penalties for the violation of its provisions, and providing for its enforcement 

 and making an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions hereof. 



[Approved June 10, 1915.] 

 The people of the State of California do enact as folloics: 



Section 1. This act shall be known, and for any and all purposes may be 

 referred to, as "The standard apple act of 1915." 



Sec. 2. The provisions of this act shall be applicable to all apples packed, 

 shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for sale or sold in the State of California, 

 in any container upon which or the label of which the word "standard" is used as 

 the brand or label or any part thereof, or as qualifying the pack, container, or the 

 contents of the container, and to such container. 



Sec. 3. No apples shall be packed, shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for 

 sale or sold, in the State of California, in any container upon which or the label of 

 which the word "standard" is used as the brand or label or any part thereof, or as 

 qualifying the pack, container or the contents of the container, unless such apples 

 and such container shall comply with all of the requirements of this act. 



Sec. 4. The following standards for apple boxes and for the packing, labeling 

 and branding of apple boxes to which this act is made applicable, are hereby 

 established : 



(o) The standard container shall be a box of the following dimensions, inside 

 measurements, when measured without distention of its parts : 



Depth of end, ten and one-half inches; width of end eleven and one-half inches; 

 length of box, eighteen inches ; and having a cubical content of as nearly as 

 possible, two thousand one hundred seventy-three and one-half cubic inches ; pro- 

 vided, that a smaller box may be used if plainly marked, on one side and on the 

 labeled or branded end with the words "short box." 



(5) No statement, design, or device, appearing upon any box within which 

 apples are contained, or upon the brand, or lining thereof, or upon the wrapper of 

 any apple, or upon any sign, or placard used in connection therewith, and having 

 reference to or regarding the box or the apples contained therein, shall be false or 

 misleading in any particular. 



(c) Every box, within which apples are contained, shall bear upon the outside 

 of one or both ends thereof, in plain words or figures, and in the English language, 

 the following statement : the number of apples in the box ; the style of pack used ; 

 the variety of the apples contained, unless the variety be unknown to the packer, 

 in which case the variety shall be stated as "unknown ;" the name and business 

 address of the person, firm, company, organization or corporation, who first packed 

 or caused the same to be packed, and, if re-packed, the name and address of the 

 person, firm, company, organization, or corporation who re-packed, or caused the 

 same to be re-packed; the name of the locality where said apples were grown; the 

 date when such apples were first packed; if the apples have been re-packed, the 

 date of re-packing; and the stamp hereinafter provided for, canceled as required by 

 the state commissioner of horticulture of California. A variation of three apples 

 more, or less, than the number stated, shall be allowed. 



(d) The apples contained within each box shall be well grown specimens of one 

 variety, hand picked, w^ell colored for the variety, reasonably uniform in size, 

 properly matured, well packed, and practically free from dirt; and shall be free 

 from insect pests, diseases, rot, insect bites, bruises and other defects, except such 



