THE REGULATION OP THE FRUIT TRADE i ' 65 



The principal provisions of this law, passed on 10 June 1915 and effect- 

 ive since 9 August 191 5, are as follows : 



" There is hereby created and established a standard for the packing 

 of fresh fruits, for interstate and foreign shipment, of the kinds specified 

 in this Act. Any box, basket, package or container of fresh fruit of the 

 kinds specified in tliis Act, which shall be packed and offered for sale or 

 for transportation for sale, shall be packed in accordance with the speci- 

 fications herein nia^le. All deciduous fruits of the kinds specified in this 

 Act when packed shall be practically free from insects and fungous disea- 

 ses. All fresh fruit of the kind specified in this Act which shall be sold 

 in bulk, or loose in the box without packing, shall be exempt from the pro- 

 visions of this Act. 



" All cherries packed in boxes or packages shall contain fruit of practi- 

 cally uniform quality and maturity and one variety onl}^ except that such 

 boxes or packages may contain more than one variety if such fact be plain- 

 ly stamped on the outside of the box or package with the words " Mixed 

 Varieties " with letters one half inch high. Each box or package (of cher- 

 ries) shall be stamped on the outside with the minimum weight of contents 

 and name of variety or varieties. Peaches, apricots, pears, plums and 

 prunes shall be of practically uniform size, quality and maturity. When 

 packed in crates, packages or containers, made up of two or more subcon- 

 tainers having sloping sides for the purpose of ventilation of the fruit therein, 

 the fruit shall not var>' in size more than ten per cent, and no layer below 

 the top layer shall contain a greater numerical count than the top layer. 

 Each box, crate, package, container or subcontainer shall be stamped 

 upon the outside with the minimum weight of its contents, .... shall bear 

 in plain letters the name of the variety contained therein, .... shall also be 

 marked .... with the approximate number of peaches in the box which 

 shall be within four peaches of the true count. Grapes packed for table 

 • use shall be of uniform quahty and maturity and shall be well matured 

 and show a (determined) sugar content.... Each crate or other package 

 (of such grapes) and containers therein shall bear in plain figures the mi- 

 nimum weight of contents.... Berries shall be packed in uniform packages. 

 Canteloupes shall be placed in standard crates. 



" All boxes, crates, packages or containers shall bear upon them, 

 in plain sight and plain letters on the outside, the name of the orchard, 

 if any, and the name and post office address of the person, firm, company', 

 corporation or organization who shall have first packed or authorized the 

 packing of the same, also the name of the locaHty where the fruit is grown. 



" In counties having a county horticultural commissioner it shall 

 be his duty and the duty of his deputies, acting as inspectors, which office 

 is hereby created, to enforce the provisions of tliis Act... In a cit}' and 

 county or in counties having no county horticultural commissioner or 

 deputy, it shall be the duty of the county board of supervisors, upon peti- 

 tion filed with them, to appoint inspectors. Said petition shall be signed 

 by at least twenty- five bona fide fruit growers residing in that county or 

 city and county. Upon the petition of twenty-five resident freeholders 



