THE APPLE PACKAGE AND GRADE BILL 205 



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 10 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 mini- 

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

 ter; or "Standard Grade minimum size two 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 Section 

 two of this Act. 



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

 beloM^ standard if the barrel bears any statement, design or device indi- 

 cating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as herein defined, 

 and the capacity of the barrel is less than the capacity prescribed 

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

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

 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 block letters of size not less than seventy-two point one inch 

 gothic. 



Sec. 5. That 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 \ari6ty, the name of the 

 locality where grown and the name of the packer or the person by whose 

 authority the apples were packed and the barrel marked. 



Sec. 6. That any person, firm or corporation, or association who 

 shall knov/ingly pack or cause to bo packed apples in barrels, or who 

 shall knowingly sell or offer for sale such barrels in violation of the 

 provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of One Dollar and 

 costs for each such barrel so sold or offered for sale, to be recovered 

 at the suit of the United States in any court of the United States having 

 jurisdiction. 



Sec. 7. That this Act sliall be in force and effect from and after 

 the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen. 



