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without distention of its parts : Length of stave, twenty-eight and one- 

 half inches; diameter of head, seventeen and one-eighth inches; dis- 

 tance between heads, twenty-six inches ; circumference of bulge, sixty- 

 four inches outside measurement, representing 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 bar- 

 rels 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 speci- 

 mens, hand picked, of good color for the variety, normal shape, prac- 

 tically free from insect and fungous injury, bruises and other 

 defects, except such as are necessarily caused in the operation of pack- 

 ing, or apples of one variety ivhich are not more than ten percentum 

 below the foregoing specifications, shall be " Standard Grade mini- 

 mum 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 provisions 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 pre- 

 scribed 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 baiTel bears to the capacity 

 prescribed by Section one of this Act. The marldng 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 

 misbranded within the meaning of this Act : 



First. — If the barrel bears any statement, design or derice indi- 

 cating that the apples contained therein are " Standard Grade " and 

 the apples when packed do not conform to the requirements pre- 

 scribed by Section two of this Act. 



Second. — If the barrel bears any statement, design or device indi- 

 cating that the apples contained therein are " Standard Grade " and 

 the barrel fails to bear also a statement of the name of the variety. 



