BETTER FRUIT 



AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF MODERN, PROGRESSIVE FRUIT GROWING AND MARKETING 



Washington Grading Rules and Regulations for 1917 



[Adopted under authority of Section 17, 

 Chapter 166, Session Laws 1915.] 



First Grade, Grade No. 1 or Extra 

 Fancy Apples are defined as sound, 

 smooth, mature, clean, hand-picked, 

 well-formed apples only, free from all 

 insect pests, diseases, blemishes, bruises 

 and other physical injuries, scald, scab, 

 scale, dry or bitter rot, worms, worm 

 stings, worm holes, spray burn, limb 

 rub, visible water core, skin puncture 

 or skin broken at stem, but slight rus- 

 seting within the basin of the stem will 

 be permitted. 



Second Grade, Grade No. 2 or Fancy 

 Apples are defined as apples complying 

 with the requirments for first-grade 

 apples, except that slight sunscald or 

 other blemishes not more than skin 

 deep shall be permitted up to a total of 

 10 per cent of the surface of the apple. 



Third Grade, Grade No. 3 or C Grade 

 Apples shall include all remaining 

 apples free from infection excepting 

 that two stings to each apple shall be 

 permitted, and if shipped in closed 

 packages shall be marked "Third Grade 

 or C Grade." 



Combination Grade may also include 

 all other apple varieties not provided 

 for in first and second grades. 



When second and third grade apples 

 are packed together the packages must 

 be marked "Combination Second and 

 Third Grade." 



When first, second and third grade 

 apples are packed together, the package 

 must be marked "Orchard Run," but 

 orchard-run packages must not contain 

 any apples that would not meet the 

 requirements of third grade. 



Summer and early fall varieties: 

 Summer varieties such as Astrachan, 

 Bailey's Sweet, Beitigheimer, Duchess, 

 Early Harvest, Red June, Strawberry, 

 Twenty Ounce Pippin, Yellow Trans- 

 parent and kindred varieties not other- 

 wise specified in these grading rules, 

 together with early fall varieties such 

 as Alexander, Blue Pearmain, Wolf 

 River, Spokane Beauty, Fall Pippin, 

 Waxen, Tolman Sweet, Sweet Bough 

 and other varieties not provided for in 

 these grading rules, as grown in sec- 

 tions of early maturity, shall be packed 

 in accordance with the grading rules 

 covering Fancy Grade as to delects but 

 regardless of color. 



The following varieties shall be ad- 

 milted to the Extra fancy and Fancy 

 grades, subject to the color require- 

 ments herewith specified: 



sol.il) RED VARIETIES 



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Fancy Fai 



Aiken Red 75% 25% 



Arkansas Black 75% 25% 



Baldwin 75% 25' 



Black Urn Davis 7.".% 25% 



Gano 75% 25% 



King Duvid 75% 25% 



Extra 



Fancy Fancy 



Spitzenberg (Esopus) 75% 25% 



Vanderpool 75% 25% 



Wlnesap 75% 25% 



Black Twig 50% 15% 



Mcintosh Red 50% 15% 



STRIPED OR PARTIAL RED VARIETIES 



Delicious 66%% 15% 



Jonathan 66%% 15% 



Stayman 66%% 15% 



Ben Davis 50% 10% 



Hubbardston 50% 10% 



Ceniton 50% 10% 



Missouri Pippin 50% 10% 



Northern Spy 50% 10% 



Rainier 50% 10% 



Rome Beauty 50% no color 



Snow 50% 10% 



Wagener 50% 10% 



Wealthy 50% 10% 



York Imperial 50% 10% 



Oravenstein 25% 10% 



•'efTrey 25% 10% 



King of Tompkins County 25% 10% 



RED CHEEKED OR BLUSHED VARIETIES 

 Perceptibly blushed cheek; tinge color. 

 Hydes King. 

 Maiden Blush. 

 Red Cheeked Pippin. 

 Perceptibly blushed cheek; characteristic color. 

 Winter Banana. 



YELLOW OR GREEN VARIETIES 



Extra Fancy — Characteristic color. 



Fancy — Characteristic color. 



Crimes Golden. 



Yellow Newtown. 



Cox's Orange Pippin. 



Ortley. 



White Winter Pearmain. 



Y'ellow Bellefleur. 



Northwestern Greening. 



Rhode Island Greening. 



All apples packed otherwise than 

 according to the foregoing rules shall 

 be accompanied by a printed descrip- 

 tion of the contents on each package. 



The term "worm stings," as used in 

 the above rules, shall be interpreted to 

 mean "healed-over stings," as the heal- 

 ing over of the sting is the only evi- 

 dence we have to show that the so- 

 called sting is not infected. 



Grading rules recommended by regu- 

 larly elected delegates to the Apple 

 Grade and Pack Conference held in 

 Spokane, November 25th, 1916, and 

 adopted by the Advisory Board of the 

 State Department of Agriculture, Janu- 

 ary 11th, 1917. 



APPLE PACK No. 



Style of Pack in Box 



2\1 diagonal pack 5x5 long, 3-ller deep.. 45 



2x1 diagonal pack 5x6 long, 3-tier deep.. 50 



2x2 diagonal pack 3x3 long, 4-tier deep.. 48 



2x2 diagonal pack 3x4 long, 4-tier deep. . 58 



2x2 diagonal park t\t long, 4-tier deep.. 6 I 



2x2 diagonal pack 4x5 long, 4-tier deep. . 72 



2x2 diagonal pack 5x5 long, 4-tier deep.. 80 



2x2 diagonal pack 5x6 long, l-tier deep.. 88 



2\2 diagonal pack 6x6 long, 4-tier deep.. 96 



2x2 diagonal pack 6x7 long, l-tier deep. . 104 



2x2 diagonal pack 7x7 long, 4-tier deep.. 112 



2x2 diagonal pack 7\8 long. 4-tler deep.. 120 



3x2 diagonal pack l\.", long, 5-tler deep., 113 

 3x2 diagonal pack . r >\5 long. 5-tler deep 



3x2 diagonal pa.k 5x6 long, 5-tler deep. . 138 



:\2 diagonal pack 6x8 long. 5-tler deep. 160 



3x2 diagonal pack 6x7 long, 5-tIei deep,. 1113 



3x2 diagonal pack 7x7 long, 5-tler deep.. 1 7f. 



:i\2 diagonal pack 7xs long. 5-tler deep., 188 



3x2 diagonal pack 8x8 long, 5-tler deep. . 2011 

 3x2 diagonal pack 8x9 long, .", tier deep. . 213 



■tralght pack x long, 5-tler deep 200 



'. straight pack 9 long, 5-tler deep, 225 



The standard size of an apple box 

 shall be 18 inches long, 11% inches 

 wide, 10% inches deep, inside measure- 

 ment. 



Dimensions of apple-box materials: 



Ends— %xl0%xll%, 2 pieces 20 to bundle 



Sides — :i s xl0i._.xl9%, 2 pieces 40 to bundle 



T. & B.— i 4 x5Vixl9%, 4 pieces... 100 to bundle 



Cleats— %x%xll%, 4 pieces 100 to bundle 



32 6d nails commonly used per box. 



RULES FOR ESTIMATING PAPER AND 

 CARDBOARD 



Apples Pears Peaches 

 lbs. lbs. lbs. 

 Wraps for packing 100 bxs 50 50 25 



Lining for packing 100 bxs 71 

 Cardboard for packing 100 

 boxes 16 



RULES FOR USE OF PAPER 



Apples — 



Use 8x8 for 188-200-213-225 packs. 



Use 9x9 for 175-163-150-138-125-113 packs. 



Use 10x10 for 112-104-100-96-88 packs. 



Use 11x11 for 80-72-64-56 packs. 



Use 12x12 for 50-48-41-36-32 packs. 

 Pears — 



Use 8x8 for 210-228-245 packs. 



Use 9x9 for 193-180-165 packs. 



Use 10x10 for 150-135-120-110-100 packs. 



Use 11x11 for 90-80-70-60 packs. 

 Peaches — 



Use 8xS for 96-90 packs. 



Use 9x9 for 84-78-72-65-60 packs. 



Use 10x10 for 55-50-45 packs. 



Use 11x11 for 40-36 packs. 

 Cement-Coated Nails, per keg — 



id, 55,000; 5d, 39,700; 5y 2 d, 31,000; 6d, 23,600. 



[Section 15, Chapter 166, Session Laws 1916.] 



It shall be unlawful for any person 

 to import into this state, sell, barter, or 

 otherwise dispose of or ofTer for sale or 

 have in his possession for the purpose 

 of sale or barter any fruit which is or 

 has been infected with peach mildew, 

 peach-twig borer, San Jose scale or 

 other insect pests or the larvae of the 

 codling moth or peach-twig borer, and 

 the fact that any fruit bears the mark 

 of any such scale insect or is worm 

 eaten by any such larvae, shall be con- 

 clusive evidence that the fruit is in- 

 fected, within the meaning of this sec- 

 lion, provided that nothing in this sec- 

 tion shall be construed to prevent the 

 grower of such infected fruit grown 

 within the Stale of Washington from 

 manufacturing the same into a by- 

 product or selling and shipping the 

 same to a by-product factory. 



The Orchardist'a Opportunity 

 To every owner of an orchard which 

 is not yet in heavy hearing, there is 

 offered an unusual opportunity. In 

 some orchards from one lo five years 

 of age tilled crops can be grown to 

 good advantage. Potatoes, beans, cab- 

 bage, squash, cauliflower, Broccoli and 



tomatoes are among the best lo be 

 planted. Berries, sue h as strawberries, 

 are also good. By regulating the work 

 some of these crops may he planted in 



early spring, some in July and some 

 even in the early fall. Strips of vetch 

 and ha) can also he grown to advan- 



