678 THE FKUIT ISDUSTBY is NEW YOKK STATE 



[Public X o. 252.] 



[H. R. 21480.] 



An Act To establish a standard barrel and standard grades for apples when 

 packed in barrels, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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, repre- 

 senting as nearly as possible seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches: 

 Provided, That steel barrels 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, which 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 apples is two and one- 

 fourth inches in transverse diameter ; 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 

 provision of this Act may be branded in accordance with section 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 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 w r ith apples shall be deemed to be misbranded 

 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 indicating 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 

 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 know- 

 ingly pack or cause to be 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 shall be in force and effect from and after the first 

 day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen. 



Approved, August 3, 1912. 



